About 90-95% of a home worker’s time is spent in front of the computer. All their business activities and interaction with clients, employers and employees takes place online with the help of various applications. At any point of time, a home worker’s computer will have 5-6 windows open with around 4-5 tabs on each window. They have to pay a lot of attention and it takes ages to organize their work. In order to make their lives easier and manage time better, they have to find out ways to organize their online life.

Nowadays, to promote relationships a number of social networking sites and programs (Twitter, Face book, My space); mail applications (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) and instant messengers (Yahoo messenger, Skype and MSN) are available. Using these applications make interaction with people smoother and easier. One can share documents, attachments, photographs, videos, emails and messages through these applications. You can also find long lost friends through these networking sites. These days many businesses are being done only by advertising through these social networking websites.

Microsoft Windows Live is a new program which is just like a dashboard. Along with basic interaction tools like email, blogs, chat, draft storage and online invitation software, you can also download widgets to integrate a wide variety of programs like WordPress, Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket and Pandora. Myspace and Facebook are the only two programs that have not yet established a relationship with Microsoft Windows Live. In order to access these two programs you have to log on to their respective sites. This new program saves a lot of time but it too has its drawbacks. Though it does allow you to integrate widgets like Flickr and Photobucket, still you cannot access them fully. Their access is limited and you have to log on to their individual sites to access the full application. There is no such thing as a perfect program; all programs have their Pros and Cons. Yet these programs are a wonderful asset and help management of time.

In this day and age, the job trend is shifting from in-office to virtual interaction. This allows better flexibility and saves traveling time. In this fast paced world, those working from home have to know when to draw the line and prevent their work life from merging with their family life. Time management plays a very important role here. Time management teaches us to work smartly and within time boundations. Organizing our online life well is very essential for optimization of work and better results.