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I like this month’s Big Question: Where is your time spent? and I must say it is the question of the moment.

I started blogging in 2007 and  it has really helped me a lot. I am happy to invest time in  blogs, twitter and social networks because there is so much learning that is happening on a daily basis.

I know it is really tricky when it comes to managing work in office and parallely doing stuff like tweeting, blogging and networking .

However I think it is important to keep in touch with latest happenings in the field you are interested in. You might not be able to learn or do everything in your regular work. Blogs, Twitter and social networks help you learn and do things beyond your work at office and in fact help you excel in your jobs too.

With new tools and technologies coming up, people are getting better and better at multi-tasking. I am sure most of us can manage whole lot of things at one go.

So organizations must encourage their employees to blog and tweet at work especially now that the future of e-learning is going to be social learning.

I like the questions raised in the Learning Circuits Blog.

Here are my answers for the questions:

How much time do you spend and how did you find time for all the relatively newer things like reading blogs, twitter, social networks, etc.?

I do it intermittently, throughout the day. Reading blogs, Twitter, social networks is like having a cup of
coffee. You do not calculate when you have coffee and for how long. It happens naturally, intermittently and amidst
your work in office.

There are days when I dont read tweets and blogs

What are you doing less of today than you were 3-5 years ago?

I do not watch television any more. I am glued to my computer 24/7. I do not read books.

Do you have less of a life with all of these new things?

Of course not. I have time for everything