The Reality of Age

iOS Basics is the other seminar I co-lead with Carol Dabrowiak. It is hard to not over share with people just learning about their iPhone or iPad and it helps to have the iOS Basics website to share notes that folks might come back to after more practice. It is also a place where I can add after-thoughts without sending tons of emails.

At our last meeting this semester we will talk about iCloud - photos, files and history. I'm recommending that the participants take a proactive stance in tracking their digital lives and think about how they designate powers of attorney for health care, finances and digital assets. In updating my personal trust last year the attorney asked this question: "Who will review your online accounts, archive the important content and close the accounts?"  

One of the new photographers sent my way, Numeric Citizen Blog, shared Managing The Elderly's Numeric Life. Maybe your parents have already thought this through and are a model for the next generations ... 

You are a photographer, an artist. How are you organizing and prioritizing your work? What do you want shared, saved, discarded? Have you had this conversation with family and friends? How might you approach tracking your digital life so you can hand it off to the right person? Providing a roadmap is easier on them than forcing them to be a digital archeologist.