Simcoe County OGS - Death and Digital Legacy

Death andDigital Legacy

Simcoe County OGS - June 5, 2010

Presented by:Adele McAlear@AdeleMcAlear | @DigitalLegacyadele@DeathandDigitalLegacy.comDeathandDigitalLegacy.com

Intro

I help people understand thedigital world.

Social media early adopter.

Integrated marketingconsultant.

Digital legacy speaker.

Death

That’s a bitmorbid,isn’t it?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tstadler/393482519/

What to Expect

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tstadler/393482519/

Quick history review

Some mind boggling stats

Mac’s Story

Action points

Wrap up / Q&A

A Little History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lascaux-aurochs.jpg

30,000 years ago --> for public use

A Little History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lascaux-aurochs.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weighing_of_the_heart3.jpg

30,000 years ago --> for public use

2,100 years ago --> wealthy

A Little History

30,000 years ago --> for public use

2,100 years ago --> wealthy

600 years ago --> clergy/wealthy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lascaux-aurochs.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Weighing_of_the_heart3.jpghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Illuminated.bible.closeup.arp.jpg

A Little History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Printer_in_1568-ce.png

574 years ago--> mass media is born

A Little History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brownie2_overview.jpg

110 years ago--> snapshot photography is born

A Little History

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brownie2_overview.jpghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_garland/3197568476/

110 years ago--> snapshot photography is born

78 years ago--> home moviesbecome affordable

Physical Assets

http://rootsnleaves.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-uncle-ralph-never-wrote-to-me.htmlhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bdorfman/15846725/http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolbrowne/2184235729/http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/307113147/

Digital Dominance

The Internet started being

widely used

by the public

only

15 years ago.

Digital Dominance

http://hattrickassociates.com/professionalbloggingservices/everything-counts/http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/http://www.adelemcalear.com/2010/04/14/chirp-twitter-conference-full-of-developments/http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/05/17/does-facebook-traffic-data-show-any-fallout-from-privacy-issues/

105 million Twitter users

Estimated 150 million blogs

234 million web sites

400 million Facebook users

Digital Dominance

200 Billion emails are sent every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8&NR=1

Digital Dominance

200 Billion emails are sent every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8&NR=1

(90% are spam.)

Digital Dominance

http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/01/22/internet-2009-in-numbers/

4 billion photos

hosted by

30 billion photos per year

uploaded to

Digital Dominance

In 4.5 years, YouTube became the 2ndlargest search engine and housed over100 million videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM-kGGURWCE

Digital Dominance

In 4.5 years, YouTube became the 2ndlargest search engine and housed over100 million videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM-kGGURWCE

It would take 28 years withoutsleeping to watch the videouploaded to YouTube this week

Digital Assets

http://rootsnleaves.blogspot.com/2009/10/my-uncle-ralph-never-wrote-to-me.htmlhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/bdorfman/15846725/http://www.flickr.com/photos/carolbrowne/2184235729/http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadsidepictures/307113147/

The Future

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_coming_data_explosion.php

“More data will be created

in the next

four years

than in

the history of the planet.”

Mark Hurd

CEO, Hewlett-Packard

June 2009

Where Are You?

Meet Mac Tonnies

• Published Author• Futurist• Speaker• Blogger• Twitter faithful• Barista• Cat lover (Spook & Ebe)• Fascination for Mars• Fortean (interest in anomalous phenomena)

Mac’s Digital Footprint

Frequent guest on audiopodcasts,video shows andnumerous blogs

Sunday, October 18

Absent

Discovery

Shock & Grief

Family

Saving Work

Digital Files

Paid Services

MacTonnies.com

Online Income

Digital vs. Analog Life

Now what?

?

If you put things on the web

what should you do

with your own accounts today

to prepare for the future

What About YourFamily?

Does your familyknow about your life

online?

Who’s Key Online?

Who is important to you online?

Who can inform your community?

Money In/Money Out

Income Services Paid Services

Accounts/Passwords?

Digital Executor

Consider appointing a Digital Executor

to take care of your wishes.

Let them know where to find your information.

How to Hand it Over

No Tech Low Tech Mid Tech

Freemium Services

Start Now

Talk to your

family and friends

about it.

Today.

Accessing Online Data

Do you have the passwordto their email account?

Their computer?

Do you know where to findtheir online accounts?

Policies

History on Twitter

History on Twitter

History on Twitter

History on Twitter

History on Twitter

Q&A

Digital Legacy

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