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It is an interesting question isn’t? If you are a Problogger and your family’s well being depends on income generated by your blogs, you should do something about it. I am not a Problogger but somehow, a question pop up in my mind, what happens to my blog when I die? It’s not so much of the money generated by my blog because it isn’t much to start with, but rather what would happen to it?

One thing that comes to my mind is that, regular visitors to my blog (or for that matter anyone’s blog) will start thinking what happened to the blog owner? Is he sick? Is he busy? Is he still blogging? Is he alive? Is he dead?

For Probloggers whose family are dependent of blogging income, this should be a serious question and requires serious attention to getting an asnwer to it. This is especially true if your spouse is not a blogger herself. You should have a blog continuity plan, very much like a business continuity plan should a disaster strikes, in this case your death.

Here are some suggestions by Darren Rowse of Problogger how to prepare your spouse in the event of your death:

Contact details for partners - I have a number of blog partners that would be able to help her navigate some of the logistics of managing my blogs
Contact details for trusted other bloggers - a few others who know enough to be useful
Passwords and Contact details for Advertising Programs and Affiliate Programs - to be able to access and manage income
Contact details of bloggers who work for me - a number of my blogs are written these days by others.
Contact details for web hosts - without these the blogs fall over and income disappears
Passwords for Paypal accounts
Backup details - for blogs and computers
Blog and hosting passwords - to give her (or those who help her) access
Instructions on what to do - a few notes on what I’d suggest she does. Which blogs she could sell (and who could help her sell them), which to allow to run (and who to write on them), what my agreements are with different people etc

More discussions at Problogger, EricGiguere, Interweb World, Blogging Pro.

Obviously, new internet economy had presented a new challenge for internet practitioners with regards to business income continuity of these internet professionals. Lets hope, those involved in will writing or legal advice would come up with real solutions to these real problems potentially faced by a growing number of internet professionals especially professional bloggers.

It’s interesting also to find out if insurance companies would response to this new business insurance needs catering to professional bloggers and internet marketers. Any new idea anyone?

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