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    Digital Estate Planning: A Guide to Planning Your Digital Afterlife
    Digital Estate Planning: A Guide to Planning Your Digital Afterlife
    Digital Estate Planning: A Guide to Planning Your Digital Afterlife
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    Digital Estate Planning: A Guide to Planning Your Digital Afterlife

    By Rik Covalinski

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    If you spend any time online using e-mail, social media, retail or financial sites, then you have digital assets. What will happen to your accounts, personal information or posted media after you die? Digital Estate Planning: A Guide to Planning Your Digital Afterlife walks you through the important steps of taking inventory, documenting and storing your digital assets. You leave a Last Will and Testament to direct your survivors in your final wishes. You will learn what you need to consider when planning your directives for your digital estate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRik Covalinski
    Release dateJun 2, 2014
    ISBN9781311081360
    Digital Estate Planning: A Guide to Planning Your Digital Afterlife
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    Rik Covalinski

    Rik Covalinski has been marketing and teaching the use of social media for over 15 years. He is the developer of the social media marketing classroom, Social-How.com. In addition to his book, Rik has designed a companion website providing ore resources to the reader at www.digitalestateplanbook.com.

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      Digital Estate Planning - Rik Covalinski

      DIGITAL ESTATE PLANNING

      A GUIDE TO PLANNING YOUR DIGITAL AFTERLIFE

      BY RIK COVALINSKI

      Copyright © 2014 Rikerd Covalinski

      Smashwords Edition

      Thank you for downloading this ebook. This book remains the copyrighted property of the author, and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favorite authorized retailer. Thank you for your support. All rights reserved.

      Dedication

      TO MY WIFE AND FAMILY, FOR SUPPORTING ME IN ALL OF THE IDEAS I HAVE.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 – Your Digital Estate

      Chapter 2 – The Plan

      Chapter 3 – The Places We Go

      Chapter 4 – Storing Your Information

      Chapter 5 – Final Steps

      Digital Legacy Pre-Planning Checklist

      Conclusion

      About the Author

      Introduction

      Twenty years ago, there was no need to write this book. The Internet was in its infancy and computers were used mainly for desktop publishing. Technology changes quickly. In fact, I believe this book will be outdated and in need of revision in a matter of a few years.

      This book was written after a friend of mine passed away. I was surprised that even after his death; posts were continually being placed on his Facebook wall. I began to wonder what would happen to all of my websites, e-mails, photos and videos following my death. I never realized how many places I had

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