What’s Digital Legacy Plan About?
Digital Legacy Plan tackles tough questions. When you die, what will your digital legacy be? What will be left about you online? How will your online accounts be accessed and handled and how will you be remembered for posterity (given that there’s no real erasing of the Internet)?
Angela Crocker and Vicki McLeod team up to give us ideas and tips on how to handle our digital legacies. Vicki focuses on the personal aspects of legacy, while Angela brings it down to earth with the practical, how-to aspects.
One hundred years from now, there will be one billion dead people on Facebook. That’s a sobering thought for each of us as we consider our own mortality. And while it can be uncomfortable to talk about death, it’s important to prepare the personal and practical elements of your digital life before death. In this guide, co-authors Angela Crocker and Vicki McLeod offer solutions for the practical, social, emotional, and technical aspects of your digital legacy. They include best practices for online memorials, social media and mourning, and digital etiquette in death. Tools and resources are included throughout the book to help your digital estate planning and empower your estate’s executor.
From online banking to decades worth of digital family photos, copious creative or intellectual property, or personal history documented on social media, everyone has a widespread digital footprint that tells the story of our lives. How much of that story remains online after we’re gone? Who has access to banking, passwords, and important digital records? What about painful or deeply personal elements of your personal or professional legacy? In life, you have the opportunity to make choices about your digital legacy. If you don’t, you risk your legacy being misinterpreted, lost, or simply becoming digital litter. It’s time for a digital legacy plan.
About my Co-author
Meet my friend, colleague and Digital Legacy Plan co-author: Vicki McLeod. Vicki is a writer, coach and award-winning entrepreneur. She is the author of four nonfiction books that explore being fully human in a technical world. Her short story, Georgie, was longlisted for the 2020 CBC Nonfiction Prize and she is the winner of the BC-Yukon 2020 Flash Fiction prize for My People Came Down from the Mountains. A graduate of the SFU Writers Studio, she leads workshops, writes poetry and personal essays and bakes bread.
Places to Purchase
If you’d like to purchase a copy of Digital Legacy Plan, there are many options including your local independent bookstore (Angela’s favourites include Black Bond Books, Galiano Island Books, and Powell’s City of Books) as well as national chain bookstores like Chapters/Indigo and Barnes & Noble. It’s also available from Amazon around the world – Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere.
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If you have questions about Digital Legacy Plan, be sure to get in touch.
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