Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life - Couverture rigide

Karle, Melody

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1442278870 ISBN 13 : 9781442278875

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Melody (Condron) Karle is a librarian, researcher, presenter, and writer. She currently works at the University of Houston Libraries. Her previous book, Managing the Digital You: Where and How to Keep and Organize Your Digital Life was released in paperback in 2019. She regularly presents at conferences on topics related to social media, personal digital archiving, information organization, and genealogy. At home, she is a gardener and animal rescue volunteer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1442278870
• ISBN 13: 9781442278875
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 164
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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