About Evan Carroll
Evan Carroll is an author, speaker and UX strategist who works to make digital experiences more personal, more emotional and more effective. A leader in the developing digital legacy and personal archiving arena, Evan is author and co-founder at
The Digital Beyond and co-author of the book,
Your Digital Afterlife: When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What's Your Legacy?. Evan has appeared in numerous media outlets including
The New York Times, NPR’s
Fresh Air,
Obit magazine, NPR’s
Here and Now, Fox News,
CNN and
The Atlantic. A frequent speaker on both marketing and digital legacy, Evan has presented to audiences at SXSW Interactive (2010-2012, 2014), the Library of Congress, and the Internet Archive, among others. Evan holds BS and MS degrees in Information Science from UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. He can be contacted by emailing
or via Twitter @evancarroll. Evan's personal site is
www.evancarroll.net.
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There should be a printable form of this eBook with checklists for off-line reference when people are planning their estates, especially for those of us who have family members with dementia.
There are many extended care facilities and hospitals that do not allow people to use smartphones, tablets, or laptops around their medical equipment because of the concern that radio frequency interference can cause problems with the medical equipment.
Therefore, paper is best for times like this.