Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life (LITA Guides) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 1538126230 ISBN 13: 9781538126233

Publisher: RL, 2019

Synopsis

Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life is a much-needed guide for those struggling with how to manage and preserve their digital items. Starting with a values assessment, this book helps readers identify what items are important to them personally so that they can effectively prioritize their time and effort. Covering multimedia, correspondence, legacy planning, password protection, photos, non-digital documents, financial and legal documents, and even social media archiving, this comprehensive text addresses how to get started and how to develop a plan for managing existing and future items.

Features include:


Value assessment exercises to help readers identify what is a preservation priority to them personallyBest practices for managing digital financial and legal documentsHow to save things from multiple devices, as well as social media sitesRecommendations for scheduling maintenance activities and automating backupGuidelines for creating a personal management plan so that users are prepared to handle new and existing documents, photos, and other digital material for ongoing access
After reading this short primer, readers will be ready to:

better organize and identify what they already have in a digital form, have a personal plan for knowing what to discard and what to retain, know how to digitize papers, photographs, voicemail,preserve email and social media postings, andset up a workable long-term file naming and organizational structure.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Rogers, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a co-founder of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research and a co-editor of numerous volumes of international research.

Edition details

• Publisher: RL
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1538126230
• ISBN 13: 9781538126233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164