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Do you know what will happen to your digital “stuff” when you die?No? Rest assured, you are not alone. This increasingly important but relatively unknown subject involves what happens to all of your accounts, social media, emails, photos, and documents and how you will be remembered in your online afterlife.This book will let you take control of your online afterlife and ensure that your important digital assets are treated according to your wishes. Given that the average person spends close to seven hours per day online it’s a must-read for everyone.Death: of course it’s not an easy subject for any of us. Indeed, there are few subjects more difficult to discuss or imagine than death. It’s like we’d rather talk about anything else than the one universal experience we all share. But it’s now one that also needs to be addressed in the digital age. Digital Legacy: Take Control Of Your Online Afterlife provides both the context of how we got here but also the right guidance to move forward with your planning today. Authored by two tech executives (also former Googlers) and founders of the digital-legacy platform GoodTrust -- Daniel Sieberg and Rikard Steiber, CEO and founder of GoodTrust -- the book outlines the pitfalls, challenges and opportunities that are important for all of us to tackle.
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"Timely, engaging and well thought out. This book should be an accompaniment for every estate planning and anyone with a digital presence (which is almost everybody!)."- Beena Ammanath, Executive Director of the Deloitte AI Institute, former VP of AI at HPE, founder of Humans for AI
"Digital Legacy shines a bright, stark light on an issue few if any of us want to confront: what happens to our digital selves when we die. It paints a clear picture of all the factors and sources of data, the scale of the problem, and will make you realize how ill-prepared you and your family are to deal with issues of personal data and accounts in the ever of your demise. It dives deep, but also pulls back to give you key takeaways and offers helpful advice for how to prepare your digital self for an eventuality none of us can escape. It will educate you, scare you, and spur you to action." - Lance Ulanoff, former Editor-in-Chief at Mashable, PCMag
"Death, wealth and possessions are as old as humanity. Our digital life is a younger concept. And the digital assets there are even more valuable for your loved ones - your photos, your videos, your friendships, your story, your dreams, your accomplishments. Your entire life story in digital form. Digital Legacy is a must-read to find your solution to this most fundamental human problem." - Gopi Kallayil, Chief Evangelist for Digital Transformation and Strategy at Google"This is truly an essential book and should be a part of everyone's estate planning. If you have a will you should have this book."
- Carmen Rita Wong Writer, Producer, Nonprofit Board Member

"With the ubiquity of social media and humankind's interactions with these various platforms, few of us - myself included - have heretofore given much thought to the inevitable question: what happens to all of my digital information when I'm gone? Written in a clear, accessible, and engaging manner Sieberg and Steiber's Digital Legacy: Take Control of Your Online Afterlife is a fantastically well-organized approach to evaluating and organizing one's online legacy, setting the stage for a well-planned exit both from the digital and analog world."
- Nathan Long, President, Saybrook University

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08NWHWHPG
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 15, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1078 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 113 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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A must read for anyone that has digital stuff (aka everyone)
Digital Legacy is an essential read for everyone with a digital life. Got photos online? Videos? Emails? Social media profiles? Online bank accounts? Documents? Then you need a plan for what happens to this stuff when you die. Where to start? Daniel Sieberg and Rikard Steiber's book is THE starting point for making this plan. It provides useful guidance, tips and fair amount of inspiration. It is clear and well-written. Read it and you will learn how to take control of your digital afterlife.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2020
Digital Legacy brings the often taboo topic of death, into the spotlight and forces you to care! Managing our digital legacy when we die should be just as important as writing our will and through reading this book you'll learn WHY and what steps we should be taking to get this done! My family is everything to me and whether I die young or old I refuse to leave my family to pick up pieces of my digital life when I'm gone. If this applies to you as well - get a copy of this book and start thinking about your legacy. Don't wait till its too late!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2020
Digital Legacy is an essential read for everyone with a digital life. Got photos online? Videos? Emails? Social media profiles? Online bank accounts? Documents? Then you need a plan for what happens to this stuff when you die. Where to start? Daniel Sieberg and Rikard Steiber's book is THE starting point for making this plan. It provides useful guidance, tips and fair amount of inspiration. It is clear and well-written. Read it and you will learn how to take control of your digital afterlife.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for anyone that has digital stuff (aka everyone)
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2020
Digital Legacy is an essential read for everyone with a digital life. Got photos online? Videos? Emails? Social media profiles? Online bank accounts? Documents? Then you need a plan for what happens to this stuff when you die. Where to start? Daniel Sieberg and Rikard Steiber's book is THE starting point for making this plan. It provides useful guidance, tips and fair amount of inspiration. It is clear and well-written. Read it and you will learn how to take control of your digital afterlife.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2022
I learned a lot about my* online life and what I need to do to ensure my information and wishes are respected after my death very important for the world we live in today
Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2021
It's kind of funny, but about a year-and-a-half ago, a speculative fiction author contacted me about a book where the hero worked for a digital legacy company and was investigating whether they had prematurely called somebody dead and erased their digital footprint too early (allowing them to do dastardly deeds, of course). That got me thinking back then about how our digital footprint could outlive us, something I never thought about before. In this book, the authors take a look at that and get down to the nitty-gritty about how to protect our digital legacy. Since the internet has been around for decades now—and social media for over a decade—some of us might have a surprising digital presence that we may want to secure now (if we can) or have our heirs do so after our deaths. This book does help you get a better understanding of what to be concerned about digitally after we die. For instance, consider your electronic subscriptions, like Amazon Prime, Netflix, and website subscriptions; if not shut off, these can put a drain on an estate. Or how about actual digital assets like websites or domains? Of course, your IRL accounts may have digital counterparts, like banking. Your digital assets also include blog posts, comments, and social media photos. The book does give a good idea of the things you will need to consider when thinking of your digital legacy, with some solid hints and tips—even for particular websites—about how to delete accounts, transfer information, and otherwise protect what is yours. I did feel like the authors went off on tangents, like about computer history. Parts of the book felt like scaremongering as well, though perhaps the authors are just trying to get you to see the importance of what they're talking about. Despite the tangents, this book still does have some credible information important to consider when thinking about your digital legacy.

I received a free copy of this book, but that did not affect my review.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2020
This book provides clear and essential guidance on a current and incredibly relevant topic. A friend's family learned this lesson the hard way earlier this year. Her daughter (under 30) passed away from a sudden health crisis, and the parents spent hours and hours trying to get access to and control of her internet and social media accounts (including a successful business) and other records. My friend's daughter had made no plans for her digital after-life; it probably never occurred to her or she thought she was too young to worry about such things. Do your heirs a favor: Read this book and make the necessary arrangements.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2020
I’m just diving in and so far, a great read. A subject so current and meaningful, presented in such a way that helpless feelings of facing the inevitable, shift to that of empowerment. A sense of plan and control in that which is by nature uncontrollable, becomes a very comforting tool to apply to your legacy and sense of being.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2020
Great read on a current issue that is not widely covered
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