A guide to the personal and practical elements of your digital life before you die Crocker, Angela creator author. McLeod, Vicki author. text bcc 2019 monographic eng 1 online resource "The book offers solutions for the practical, social, emotional, and technical aspects of your digital legacy. It includes best practices for online memorials, social media and mourning, and digital etiquette in death. Tools and resources are included throughout the book to help navigate digital estate planning and empower estate's executor."-- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; 1. What Is Digital Legacy?; 2. Who Needs a Digital Legacy Plan?; 3. Why Digital Legacy Planning Is Important; Chapter 1: Overcoming the Taboo of Death; 1. Accepting Our Mortality; 2. Talking about Death: A Social Shift; 3. Seeking Spiritual Comfort Online and Offline; 4. Tender Territory: The Importance of Self-care; Sample 1: Self-care Contract; 5. Immortality Promise of the Internet; 6. Why You Can't Rely on Bit Rot; Chapter 2: What Is a Legacy?; 1. Legacy by the Generations; 2. How Digital Is Your Life?; Sample 2: Your Digital Life Worksheet 3. Your Personal Legacy4. Legacy of Your Loved Ones; 5. Professional Legacies; Chapter 3: Assets and Access; 1. Digital Assets Inventory; Sample 3: Digital Assets Inventory Worksheet; 2. Who Has Control? Who Has Access?; 3. Legal Mechanisms; Chapter 4: Legacy Planning Options; 1. Make Your Choice before Death; 2. Death by Unnatural Causes; 3. Bequeath Your Digital Life; 4. You're up for Digital Adoption; 5. Your Legacy Is Lost; 6. Neglected or Ignored: Digital Litter; Chapter 5: Digital Estate Planning; 1. Beyond Your Last Will and Testament; 2. Empowering Your Executor and Digital Steward Sample 4: Important Contacts Worksheet3. Working with Professionals; 4. There Are No Secrets in Cyberspace; Sample 5: Clean Your Digital Closet Worksheet; Chapter 6: Transitioning Social Media, Websites, and Other Tools; Sample 6: Social Media and Other Accounts Worksheet; 1. Managing Social Media Accounts; 2. Google and Other Websites; 3. Password Managers; 4. Access to the Management of Other Websites; 5. Other Online Accounts; 6. Basic Guidelines for Transitioning Accounts; Chapter 7: Online Memorial Planning; 1. Digital Memorials; 2. Social Media Obituaries Sample 7: Writing an Obituary Worksheet3. Curating the Museum of Me; Sample 8: Personal Milestones Worksheet; Sample 9: Privacy Preferences Worksheet; Sample 10: Museum of Me Worksheet; Chapter 8: Death and Dying in the Digital Age; 1. Dealing with Death in the Twenty-first Century; 2. Grieving in the Virtual Community; 3. The Dead among Us; Sample 11: Personal Reflections on Death and Dying Worksheet; 4. Social Media and Mourning; 5. Reliving Sad Memories; 6. Comfort in Self: Your Self-care Contract; 7. Comfort in Community: Online Groups; 8. Digital Etiquette in Death Chapter 9: The Social Shift: Death at the Intersection of Digital and Analog1. Everybody Dies: What's Your Plan?; Sample 12: Digital Legacy Plan Checklist; 2. Social Responsibility: We're in It Together; Download Kit; Dedication; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Notice to Readers; Self-Counsel Press thanks you for purchasing this ebook. Angela Crocker and Vicki McLeod. Personal information management Information retrieval Legacies Social media Online social networks Online etiquette Biographical sources Estate planning Executors and administrators information retrieval social media LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Library & Information Science General HD30.2 .C76 2019eb 025.04 cci1icc Crocker, Angela. North Vancouver, British Columbia ; Bellingham, WA : Self-Counsel Press, a division of International Self-Counsel Press Ltd., 2019 1770405003 9781770405011 1770405011 9781770405004 B809CB4B-63BE-4DB0-985F-E555849FBFB6 OverDrive, Inc. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2036114 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2036114 EBZ 181207 20260708114959.0 on1078783477 eng