Twitter – Controling The Signal To Noise Ratio

Twitter is an enigma, The potential to use it for good,to break news and also to make money is undisputed. On the other hand The "signal to Noise Ratio"  can be prohibitive. For those of you who don't know what signal to noise ration is let me explain with the help of Wikipedia. "Signal-to-noise ratio compares the level of a desired signal (such as useful twwets) to the level of background noise(sales pitches and other useless tweets). The higher the ratio, the less obtrusive the background noise is." So basically the less background noise the better the signal to noise ratio... On twitter … [Read more...]

I’m Back and Raring to Go

You'll have seen that the blog updates towards the end of 2008 were a bit irregular. I think I was suffering from a bit of burn out. I had 4 projects on the go, a house move to organise and as a result I wasn't feeling very creative. I've pretty much taken the last 6 weeks off just spending an hour or two a day keeping things ticking over and working with my mentoring students and as a result I am back and the creative juices are flowing again. My plans for the coming year are firming up nicely and I am focussing more on what I really enjoy, the coaching and forum aspects of my business. As a … [Read more...]