Your Digital Afterlife When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What's Your Legacy?

by Carroll, Evan; Romano, John

• ISBN13: 9780321732286
• ISBN10: 0321732286
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: New Riders

Summary

Digital objects are now as important as tangible ones to preserve identities and memories of the past. Learn to save yours for posterity. bull; bull;Explains what happens to your blogs, photos, social media profiles and other digital assets when you die. bull;Outlines ways for anyone to make their content available to their survivors. bull;Offers checklists and strategies readers can use to secure their digital legacy and shows how the internet can make your memory live on. Almost without realizing it, we have stopped saving our memories in photo albums, home movies, and letters, and have transitioned to almost total digital storage of such assets and information. Bank statements and credit card bills that we used to receive by mail and file away are now stored and accessed on the internet. If we don't take steps to make all this information available to our heirs, our personal legacies could be lost forever. Written by the creators of thedigitalbeyond.com, this book explains the challenges, and offers solutions to make sure survivors can have access to this valuable material. it also explores different online memorial sites, which can do everything from notifying your email list when you die, To providing a place where survivors can post their memories

Author Biography

John Romano and Evan Carroll are the founders of TheDigitalBeyond.com, a leading online resource that explores death and digital legacy. As researchers and speakers, they are devoted to helping individuals secure their digital assets for posterity. Their work has been covered by CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Obit Magazine, the Orlando Sentinel, and The Austin Chronicle. With backgrounds in design and information science, together they have over twenty years’ experience making the web a more useful and enjoyable place.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
1. Introducing the Digital Afterlife

Your Digital Life, Death, and Beyond

2. The Shift to Digital
3. A Well-Lived (Digital) Life
4. The Artifacts of Your Life
5. The Value of Digital Things
6. What You Leave Behind
7. The Opportunity of Digital Legacy
8. Your Legacy at Risk
9. The Birth of an Industry

Securing Your Digital Legacy

10. Before You Begin
11. Computers and Devices
12. Email
13. Social Websites
14. Finance and Commerce
15. Create Your Plan

Epilogue: The Future of Digital Death