This is the presentation I gave in San Antonio on March 12, 2010 on the role of the crematory, cemetery and funeral association in preserving, navigating and helping us discover our digital legacies.

1. legacy 2.0
the democratization of history and future of stories...
by:
tara ‘missrogue’ hunt

2. legacy:
what we are
remembered for
(and by whom)

3. the history
of legacy

4. democratized

5. inaccessible

6. “Let me imagine...what would have
happened had Shakespeare had a
wonderfully gifted sister, called
Judith, let us say.”

7. more accessible

8. democratized

9. “we’re writing
our histories
one blog post
at a time.”
David Weinberger, 2004

10. twitter 18m + estimated ‘users’
57% women
35-54 year olds represent the largest twitter population
50 million tweets sent per day
~75M unique visits to twitter.com in January 2010
75% all Twitter activity comes from 5% of users
94% of Twitter users have <100 followers
92% follow <100 others
stats from: eMarketer Aug09, Harvard Study June09, Brian Solis Oct09, ComScore Sep09

11. date: March 4, 2010 @7:55pm by @bitstrategist at http://twitpic.com/16n7gp

12. facebook >400m + estimated active ‘users’
3.5 million events created each month
35 million users update their status daily
5 billion pieces of content shared each week
60 million status updates posted every day
3 billion photos are posted every month
stats from: Facebook public Statistics March 2010

13. social
networks SN’s more popular than email (67% - 65%)
Women are more active in most SN’s (avg 53%)
Social networks are more popular than porn
Social networks are likely to overtake search soon
Amount of time spent on FB increased 566% in 09
stats from: Neilsen Mar09,

14. twitter: ~32,000
facebook: 3,900
flickr: 1,000+
foursquare: 2,050
blippy: 122

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/anonymous9000/4281777022

16. 15
in this future, we’ll all be famous for 15 people...

17. perception
world events
(context)
memory
(story)
experience
(feeling)
complex history

18. feelings
what I’m experiencing now

24. stories
what happened to me

25. homelessness

26. living thru war

27. motherhood

28. aging

29. bacon

31. context
what was going on in the world

32. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/12/27/opinion/28opchart.html
world events

33. #hashtags

34. memes

36. rickrolling

37. “lipstick on
a pig”

38. perception
how others saw it

39. authenticity

40. honesty

41. opinion

42. whuffie

43. I
‘Googled’
TM
you

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45. me
}
we

46. personal
legacy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewtopia/3355277605/

47. when I die,
what will
become of my
legacy?

49. ?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-boss/101793493/

50. digital
executor
credit to: Adele Mcalear, http://www.deathanddigitallegacy.com/

51. generational
legacy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/envios/519041281/

52. we are writing
our history 1 blog
post, tweet,
photo, video,
poke and so on
at a time...

53. diversity

54. 3D history
books?

56. “A local legend around Salt Lake City.
No one is sure what it means that this woman was
"Victim of the Beast 666" but many have tried to find
out!”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nomigraphics/1351654737/

58. possibility

59. preserve

61. navigate
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geebee2007/3516653918/

62. create
more of
this?

63. discover
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nedtrifle/2459202797/

64. augmented
reality exists

65. legacy 2.0:
bringing the content in
the digital world into
the physical world
to preserve, navigate
and discover lives &
legacies...

67. tara ‘missrogue’ hunt
horsepigcow@gmail.com
514-679-2951
twitter: @missrogue
skype: sanfranrogue
http://www.horsepigcow.com
http://www.thewhuffiefactor.com

68. http://www.slideshare.net/missrogue
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