After spending the holidays with old friends in Montana, I reflected on all the many places I have been in the world. I have been blessed to have incredible opportunities that have lead to amazing adventures. This last year I started really thinking about how I could keep track of it all. I don’t own my own home, so I don’t have that nice den wall where I could hang a world map up and start pinning it. Given how virtual my life seems to be, I wanted a more mobile version. I started out just writing down the places in my mobile PDA, but really wanted those pins on a map. Today I figured, “someone’s got to have built something online.” Sure enough, with a simple google search I was lead to several options. The one I chose was YourGMap as it actually had the pins and I could edit information about each destination. So, here’s my travels…
About the Author
Darin Archer is chief product officer at Yottaa, a performance optimization company serving hundreds of eCommerce brands. He has led product strategy for major eCommerce platforms at Adobe, IBM, and Elastic Path, and has retail experience at Gap Inc., where he worked to wrangle martech and create better digital shopping experiences.
