Death & Digital Assets panel discussion

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Briefly: A panel of experts will discuss preparations that you can make now to ensure that your digital assets such as emails, family photos, books, music, social media accounts, address books and online businesses don't die with you.

AGENDA:

6:00 - 6:30 p.m. Check-in, socializing

6:30 - 7:30 Panel discussion

7:30 - 8:00 Wrap-up, socializing

Free admission

More details: This may sting a little, but it's the truth. Ready? Your virtual life gets to live longer than your mortal life does. Your email accounts, Facebook posts, Web pages, digital storage accounts, iTunes music account and images that you have saved to Shutterfly remain accessible long after you can answer your texts. Similar to the care and planning that you spend on deciding who gets the keys to your house and your car after you die, should also be spent on who gets the keys to your social and digital kingdoms.

The methods for accessing digital assets after you pass on are complex.

The best solution is to make sure your heirs, executors and trustees have direct access to your accounts after you meet your end. Leaving it to the courts, complex laws, distributing death certificates, finding your actual accounts, and massive corporate bureaucracies is not going to be especially helpful to the ones you leave behind.

The Pittsboro Social Media & Internet Marketing Meetup is hosting a panel of experts to help you better understand what you need to do now to protect yourself, your family and your digital assets.

Moderator:

Nate Brown is an independent financial adviser and partner at SB Financial Group LLC in Morrisville. He helps a broad range of people plan for their goals, including retirement and college funding, in addition to actively helping professionals grow their business and network.

Panelists:

Karen Krasner Allen is the owner of Raleigh-based Phoenix Resource Management, “Finding What You Need When You Need It.” Karen builds on 25 years of corporate experience to help individuals and professionals identify, access, update, create and organize vital information and documents for use during medical, legal, financial and other life crisis events. She holds her Masters in Business Administration in Change Management and Planning, and her BA in Psychology; Certifications in Project Management, Health and Life Documents Organizing; and Certificates in Chronic Disorganization.

Lauren Campbell Maxie is an attorney with NC Planning, a service of Adams Howell, Sizemore & Lenfestey PA, with offices in Raleigh, Cary and Angier. She focuses on estate planning and business planning as she continues to follow her passion to help individuals protect themselves and their families for the future. Her first job in high school was working with the elderly in a retirement community, where she truly enjoyed the relationships she built while working with such wonderful people.

Nancy Stolfo-Corti is a community relations coordinator and managing partner at Senior Helpers in Durham. She has an MBA in marketing and more than 30 years of experience in the care and hospice industry. As a care coach, she has worked tirelessly to educate this population group on the resources available to achieve and maintain independence while aging in place. She is a former board member of Health Affairs Round Table, co-owner of Edythe’s Care Home and instructor for Aging Studies at Wake Technical Community College.

Venue sponsor: Pittsboro Small Business Center, Central Carolina Community College

Refreshments sponsor: Senior Helpers of the Triangle

Event hashtag: #digitalchatham