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Digital Legacy Plan:

A guide to the personal and practical elements of your digital life before you die
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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.
1. Introductiona. What is digital legacy?b. Who needs a digital legacy plan?c. Why digital legacy planning is important2. Overcoming the taboo of deatha. Accepting our mortalityb. Seeking spiritual comfort online and offlinec. Immortality promise of the Internetd. Why you can't rely on bit rot3. What is a legacy?a. Legacy by the generationsb. Your personal legacyc. Legacy of your loved onesd. Professional legacies4. Assets and accessa. Digital assets inventoryb. Who has control? Who has access?c. Revenue, assets, intellectual property, and cold hard cashd. Legal mechanisms5. Legacy planning optionsa. Make your choice before deathb. Bequeath your digital lifec. You're up for digital adoptiond. Your legacy is loste. Neglected or ignored: digital litter6. Digital estate planninga. Beyond your last will & testamentb. Empowering your executorc. Working with professionalsd. Passing on social media, websites, and other tools7. Online memorial planninga. Digital memorialsb. Social media obituariesc. Legacy: museum of me8. Dealing with death in the 21st centurya. Social media and mourningi. Reliving sad memoriesii. Reaching out for comfort onlineb. Digital etiquette in deathc. Control: the algorithm of memory9. The social shift: death at the intersection of digital and analoga. The public face of private deathb. Celebrity and obscurityc. Everybody dies: what's your plan?d. Social responsibility: We're in it together
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