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 Social media profile information can appear posthumously in advertisements, connections, and notifications to family, friends, and colleagues. To provide peace of mind and protect online legacies, Profile Peace created a continuing education webinar titled "Social Media & Funeral Planning" on caring for a decedent’s social media profiles.
Webinar: Social Media & Funeral Planning https://www.profilepeace.com/store/p18/Social_Media_%26_Funeral_Planning_CE_Program.html This webinar identifies the 2 ways social media profiles can be handled after death of reporting or not reporting social media profiles to social networks, addresses the benefits of reporting profiles for closure or memorialization, and the security and emotional concerns of unreported profiles appearing in advertisements, connections and notifications. Our mission is to provide purposeful profile memorialization and closure. With this in mind, Profile Peace warmly invites you to learn social media and funeral planning best practices and earn CE credits. Simply click here to join our community of funeral directors and gain access to the Continuing Education (CE) programs provided by Profile Peace >
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 On behalf of the Profile Peace community, we thank the brave health care workers on the front lines fighting for our lives against COVID-19. To all social media users and family members impacted by the novel coronavirus, fees for our In Memoriam Social Media Service will be waived to help provide purposeful profile memorialization and closure during this time of difficulty. To learn more, contact our Support Team at support@profilepeace.com.
To ensure the health and safety of all, we strongly encourage everyone to take personal responsibility by strictly adhering to the guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Please visit the CDC website to learn how to protect yourself, what to do if you think you are sick, symptoms, risks associated with older adults & medical conditions, and how to prepare your family at https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html. As we practice social distancing and hygiene best practices, our hearts go out to all who are playing an important role to mitigate the spread of the virus. We offer our deepest condolences for those who have lost loved ones as a result of COVID-19. Our culture is centered on courtesy and care, and we are fully committed to help those who are impacted. We welcome you to contact us for social media assistance by emailing support@profilepeace.com.  When it comes to social network notifications from our late loved one's, less can be more. To help quiet social network notifications, Profile Peace recommends formally memorializing profiles using our pre-planning and in memoriam social media services.
Social media data includes personal information such as passions, photos, and places connected to our profiles. This data is distributed throughout networks in the form of friend suggestions, birthday reminders, work anniversaries, ads and more. To serve our audience of families and funeral directors, we created a continuing education webinar titled "Social Media & Funeral Planning" that addresses how a decedent’s social media profiles can impact family, friends, and others. Watch here. We encourage the Profile Peace community to protect and preserve social media data properly to prevent appearances posthumously. Our mission is to provide purposeful profile memorialization and closure. We welcome you to join our community>  Celebrating Online Legacies in 2020: As we share our digital lives in the new year ahead, Profile Peace is helping social media users and family members celebrate online legacies. Our 2020 initiative is to deliver educational programs on best practices for memorializing social media profiles.
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Our learning objectives are designed to help social media users, family members, and funeral directors understand and implement social media pre-planning and in memoriam best practices. The Profile Peace mission is to honor online legacies by providing purposeful profile memorialization and closure. For funeral directors, Profile Peace is an approved provider of Continuing Education programs with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) under License 274.000081, and the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice (APFSP) under Provider Number 1153. To start learning, visit our Continuing Education (CE) page here. To read more about our social media services, visit our Pre-Planning page here and In Memoriam page here. For additional information, email support@profilepeace.com. We warmly welcome you to join our growing community here.  From all of us at Profile Peace, we hope you have a heartfelt holiday season. Please take time to connect with loved ones this time of year.
As a helpful resource, the Center for Loss & Life Transition shared this thoughtful guide for “Helping Yourself Heal During the Holiday Season.” With sincere gratitude, we thank you for your support and send all of the very best to you and yours. Wishing you warm season’s greetings!  From the Profile Peace family to yours, we wish you and your loved ones a very Happy Thanksgiving full of sincere gratitude, remembrance, and appreciation.
In the spirit of adding more community, love, and magic to your family’s Thanksgiving holiday, please enjoy the thoughtful Thanksgiving Reader by Seth Godin. We warmly welcome you to join the Profile Peace community, and thank you for supporting our mission of providing purposeful profile memorialization and closure.  LinkedIn is a long-standing social network that adds meaningful value to the development of careers, the workforce, and the global economy. In fact, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network with more than 645+ million users in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Their mission is to “connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.”
When a LinkedIn user passes away, the social network offers the option to request the removal of a deceased member's profile. This results in the deletion of the profile. Unlike Facebook, currently there is no option to “memorialize” a LinkedIn user’s profile. Many of us spend a lifetime building a career and serving our communities, and it would be a wonderful change if we could honor our LinkedIn legacies. Susie Sharp, a LinkedIn trainer, wrote a very thoughtful article about reporting the death of a LinkedIn member, and states that “I start feeling pangs of regret that no relative or connection cared enough for this poor person - or knew how - to report his or her death to LinkedIn.” The comments on Susie's article are generally gracious for the guidance provided, and it is clear that this topic has touched many of us. To better understand Susie’s feeling, simply perform a search on LinkedIn for the word “deceased.” The results return over 45,000 profiles. Each profile represents the career and life of a colleague, and more importantly, a father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandfather, grandmother, niece, or nephew. Consequently, these loved one’s profiles remain vulnerable. To provide peace of mind, Profile Peace is creating a Continuing Education (CE) program for funeral directors on caring for a decedent’s LinkedIn profile. Our goal is to honor the professional legacies of the deceased by sharing best practices for remembering profiles. To that end, we are building consensus to support a “legacy badge” on LinkedIn similar to their “public profile badge.” Our goal is to compassionately inform the public that a user passed away, while still preserving their profile and respecting their professional contributions. Profiles labeled with a LinkedIn “legacy badge” will show the word “Remembering”, the account will be secured so no one can log in, and profile data will no longer appear in advertisements, work anniversary notifications, and birthday reminders. As we continue our social media afterlife awareness campaign in 2019, we invite you to share stories about your LinkedIn experiences. Our mission at Profile Peace is to help social media accounts of the deceased rest in peace by providing purposeful profile memorialization and closure. Thank you for your ongoing support. We warmly welcome you and your family to join our growing community. Sources 1) About LinkedIn https://about.linkedin.com 2) How to Report the Death of a LinkedIn Member https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-report-death-linkedin-member-susie-sharp- 3) How to Create a LinkedIn Badge for Your Website https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-create-linkedin-badge-your-website-brynne-tillman 4) What will happen to my Facebook account if I pass away? https://www.facebook.com/help/103897939701143/ 5) Request removal of a deceased member's LinkedIn profile https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/ask/TS-RDMLP  The service provided by today’s funeral director encompasses both traditional arrangements and modern day planning. While most funeral directors are comfortable providing traditional arrangements, many often struggle with modern day issues related to technology. For example, how to answer family questions about memorializing a loved one’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram profiles?
Social media raises new questions in the timeless funeral industry. To address those questions throughly and thoughtfully, continuing education (CE) provides an opportunity for funeral directors to acquire new skills, maintain their professional competence, and provide quality professional services as part of modern day funeral planning. Not only is CE an ongoing requirement, it is also a chance to add value. With this in mind, Profile Peace warmly invites you to learn social media and funeral planning best practices and earn CE credits. Simply click here to join our community of funeral directors and gain access to the Continuing Education (CE) programs provided by Profile Peace. Continuing Education (CE) Programs
Profile Peace is an approved Funeral Director & Embalmer Continuing Education (CE) Sponsor with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) under License 274.000081, and an approved Continuing Education Provider with the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice (APFSP) under Provider Number 1153. For help, please email support@profilepeace.com.  This blog post continues our mission in 2019 of raising social media afterlife awareness by asking the question - how does your family prefer to communicate? The majority of families use a combination of phone calls, text messaging, email, social networking, and written letters to stay in touch to varying degrees. Pew Research Center compiled the statistics behind the communication mediums that are used most often by different generations to highlight the role of social media in the context of family communications. The Pew Research Center data categorizes family communications in 3 groups:
The social science of family interactions and communication mediums suggests that while the majority of U.S. adults have social media profiles, families tend to use phone calls, text messages, and email far more than social media to stay in touch. As a result, family members may not be aware of the various social media profiles their loved one’s have simply because they do not interact through that communication medium. Consequently, when a family member passes away, their social media profiles may not be considered. In an effort to provide peace of mind and digital closure, Profile Peace has created our In Memoriam Social Media Service to help families lay their loved one’s social media profiles to rest with dignity and care. As we continue our social media afterlife awareness campaign in 2019, we invite you to share stories about how your family prefers to communicate and the extent to which social media is used. Profile Peace provides purposeful profile memorialization and closure, and we warmly welcome you to join our community. Sources: http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/social-media/ http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/03/01/social-media-use-2018-appendix-a-detailed-table/ http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/05/21/6-keeping-in-touch-across-generations/  As Profile Peace continues our 2019 mission of raising social media afterlife awareness, this post is meant to provide a solution to help protect your Facebook account posthumously by appointing a legacy contact. A legacy contact is an option only Facebook provides (as of July 2019), and each Facebook user has to add a legacy contact to their account to use this functionality.
If you are 18 years or older, you can add a legacy contact by clicking Settings > Memorialization Settings > Typing in a friend’s name and clicking Add > and then clicking Send to let your friend know they are now your legacy contact. You can change your legacy contact by repeating the same steps, and once your account is memorialized your legacy contact will be notified. The benefits of having a legacy contact include the ability to post a final message or memorial information to your profile, updating profile pictures and cover photos, removing your account, and downloading a copy of your Facebook data. While a legacy contact cannot log into your account, read messages, or add and remove friends, they can help transition your Facebook profile. Facebook is a pioneer with their unique legacy contact functionality, and we hope to see similar solutions from other social networks since the average social media user has about 7 profiles. Profile Peace can help you plan for all of your social media profiles using our pre-planning service or streamline the memorialization and closure process using our in memoriam service. What are your plans for your social media profiles? As we continue our social media afterlife awareness campaign in 2019, we invite you to share your experience appointing a legacy contact and protecting social media profiles for you and your loved ones. Profile Peace provides purposeful profile memorialization and closure, and we warmly welcome you to join our community. References: https://www.facebook.com/help/1568013990080948 https://www.facebook.com/help/1070665206293088?helpref=faq_content https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/2017/nov/17/average-person-has-7-social-media-accounts https://www.profilepeace.com/pre-planning-service.html https://www.profilepeace.com/in-memoriam-service.html |
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