Overview

A lot of our time and effort is spent raising awareness over the importance of preparing for death from a digital technological perspective. We do this both on and offline.

We initiatives that we have ran over the last two years to help raise the awareness of digital end of life planning and digital legacy issues. We try to approach each project from a different creative perspective and work with as many demographics and partner organisations as possible. 

 

Our flagship ‘Goodbye’ Tool

 

Our free goodbye and legacy tool has attained a great reception from the tech and end of life sector alike. It enables us all to say “goodbye’ to our friends and family online. Secret messages are saved and only released and distributed to Facebook and Twitter once a user dies. This task is carried out by the user’s assigned ‘digital executor’.

Screenshot of DeadSocial’s Goodbye & Digital Legacy Tool 

 

To read about the impact DeadSocial had on one member of our community click here

 

Our work within the Healthcare, Charity, Tech and End of Life sector

 

We work closely with the healthcare, charity, technology and end of life sectors. To view our HCP & Charity area click here. 

The organisations we worked with in 2014 can be viewed above

 

Our Social Media Week, London event

 

We ran an event called ‘Death, Digital Demise, Community and Our Digital Legacy‘ for Social Media Week London. Speakers ranged from Jon Underwood the founder of Death Cafe and Stuart Arnott the CEO of Mindings to Jack Rooke a poet whose work focuses on death and bereavement. 

 

 To find out more about the event click here

 

Our Pop-Up Shop supporting Dying Matters Awareness Week

 

For the last two years we have ran a pop-up shop and hosted a range of charities and organisations during Dying Matters Awareness Week. 

 

  To find out about our ‘Dying Matters Awareness Week Pop-Up shop’ in 2014 click here

Adopt a Grave™

 

Adopt a Grave will be announced in the coming weeks

 

More information will be announced in the coming weeks here 

 

The LivInfographic™

 

The LivInfographic (the living-Infographic) was a Infographic installation that lived in and was part of art exhibition in London for one week. It used near real-time data from the digital death survey and was updated continually over this period.

 

 To learn more about the LivInfographic click here

 

Streaming the Christmas pantomime ‘Cinderella’ to UK Hospices.

 

With the support of ‘Broadway Barking Theatre’ and ‘Together for Short Lives’ DeadSocial streamed a the Christmas Pantomime from Broadway Barking Theatre and made the live video stream free to hospices to and patients across the UK and Northern Ireland.

 

To find more about more about the initiative click here

 

Capturing the Spirit of Death™

 

At the Ideal Death Show 2014 we set a camera to take photos over a prolonged period of time. This allowed for ghost like images to be captured in a way reminiscent of those taken in the Victorian period.

 

To find out more about this initiative click here 

 

Raising Awareness in the community

 

We raise awareness both in the local and wider community by participating in local community projects as well as national and international campaigning.

 

The photo above shows James Norris (DeadSocial’s CEO) speaking at an AgeUK event in London

 

Speaking at conferences & events

 

We often speak at conferences and events about death and preparing for death in today’s connected World.

 

Photo above is of James Norris (DeadSocial’s CEO) speaking at The Next Web, Amsterdam. To view our upcoming speaking engagements click here.