Angela Crocker: In Brief
Angela Crocker is an author and educator who helps people navigate the digital life. As lecturer at a polytechnic university, she helps business and media students learn how to use digital tools for content marketing. With compassion and enthusiasm she trains the next generation of digital marketers in ethical best practices and digital survival tactics. As author, she helps individuals find their way online (and off!) as they integrate digital tools into their everyday life. Her bestselling books include Work From Home Zone, Digital Life Skills for Youth, Declutter Your Data, and Digital Legacy Plan, co-written with Vicki McLeod. When she’s not teaching or writing, Angela finds joy in paper crafts, walks in the forest, and all things Star Wars.
Angela Crocker: At Length
Angela Crocker has been described as a pioneer of ethical social media, a business savvy digital goddess and an information organizing superhero. She’s also been called the Ann Landers of the online world, making sense of the sometimes confusing digital domain.
When it comes to the digital life, Angela has experienced and researched many of the relevant issues. She’s published work on online communities, digital decluttering, education technology, digital parenting, content planning, and more. Angela works as an author, speaker and educator to help individuals and businesses navigate the issues, challenges and joys of living a digital life.
Trained as both a business writer and a technical writer, Angela draws on her twenty-five years of business experience in marketing, fundraising, entrepreneurship, leadership and business communication plus a lifetime of digital living. Her family first had a home computer in 1981!
Since launching her business in 2009, she’s helped thousands figure out what content to share on websites, blogs, email newsletters and social media. Today, she focuses on teaching through speaking engagements, workshops, and post-secondary courses. She is a School of Business + Media faculty member in the Marketing Management program at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), a leading polytechnic university.
Author
Angela is the author of seven books, most recently, Work From Home Zone – a guide to help employees and entrepreneurs integrate work and life. Her earlier book, Digital Life Skills for Youth, is filled with best practices for parents and teachers help tweens and teens master digital skills. In the same year, Digital Legacy Plan came out, co-written with Vicki McLeod. It is t
he essential guide to the personal and practical elements of your digital life before death. In addition, Declutter Your Data and The Content Planner continue to be a hit with readers from across Canada, United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia and elsewhere.
In addition, her backlist includes The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Creating a Social Network (2011) and The B4 Plan (2012). Happily, Work From Home Zone, Digital Legacy Plan, Declutter Your Data, and Digital Life Skills for Youth are all bestsellers. She’s currently research ideas for her next book.
Credentials
In addition to her professional writing and research, Angela holds a Master of Education degree at Simon Fraser University in education technology and learning design. As a lifelong learner, she has credentials in communications, publishing and liberal arts from Simon Fraser University, business training from Douglas College and technical writing from British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Get in Touch
If you connect with Angela online, you’ll talk tech and digital living. Conversation will inevitably include her love of vintage toys, road trips, sunsets, forest walks, Star Wars, and how to doodle with fine art supplies.
