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Sarah Evans at Mashable writes about 10 Ways You Can Use Twitter Lists. If you’re looking for inspiration for how to make the most of this new Twitter feature, you may want to check out this post. Here are her top five:

1. Industry Peers and Professionals Lists
2. Experts Lists
3. Recognize and Reward Customers Lists
4. Niche Lists
5. Employee Directory Lists

Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb discusses several reports which show that Twitter is attracting a younger demographic in As Facebook Ages, Gen Y Turns to Twitter. There are several interesting statistics included in this post such as: “Twitter is now the second-youngest of the top four social networking sites. Its median age is 31. MySpace’s is 26, LinkedIn is 39, and, as noted above, Facebook is 33.”

“Facebook is getting old. No, people aren’t getting tired of it, it’s actually getting old, as in its population is aging. In May of 2008, the median age for Facebook was 26. Today, it’s 33, a good seven years older. That’s an interesting turn of events for a site once built for the exclusive use of college students. So where are today’s college students hanging out now? Well, to some extent, they’re still on Facebook, despite having to share the space with moms, dads, grandparents, and bosses. Surprisingly though, they’re also headed to another network you may have heard of: Twitter.”

Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb has put together a stellar list of 13 Tools for Building Your Own iPhone App. These are applications with the non-developer in mind so if you’ve been thinking about creating your own iPhone version of your website or blog but didn’t know how, you’ll want to check out this list.

Dan Schawbel, author of Me 2.0, writes for Mashable about How To: Build Your Personal Brand on YouTube. This helpful post details steps you can take in order to leverage the full power of YouTube in order to build your brand. This quick guide provides recommendations in the following areas:

1. Brand your profile
2. Create remarkable videos
3. Promote your videos

This week I have assigned students in my Open Movements course the task of self-archiving their final papers in either E-LIS or DList, both disciplinary repositories for the LIS field. So in the spirit of that assignment, I archived a recent article which I wrote for The CyberSkeptic’s Guide to Internet Research in May, 2009. It’s titled 6 Steps to Publishing a Scholarly Online Journal (for free!) and it details how to create your own open access scholarly journal online.

David Turnbull at DailyBlogTips lists out 101 Ways to Promote a New Blog. If you’ve recently started a blog and you’re brainstorming about ways to get the word out, you may want to check out this guide which is divided into the following sections:

• Content
• Facebook
• Fundamentals
• Online Video
• Other Blogs
• Paid
• People
• Podcasting
• Search engine optimization
• Social networks
• StumbleUpon
• Su.pr
• Twitter
• Wordpress

Lifehacker authors Gina Trapani with Adam Pash have published The Complete Guide to Google Wave. This helpful e-book is a comprehensive user manual for all things Wave and is available for free in wiki format. Here’s the table of contents:

• Chapter 1: Meet Google Wave
• Chapter 2: Get Started with Wave
• Chapter 3: Manage Your Wave Contacts
• Chapter 4: Find and Organize Waves
• Chapter 5: Dive Deeper into Wave
• Chapter 6: Master Wave’s Interface
• Chapter 7: Wave Gadgets
• Chapter 8: Wave Bots
• Appendix A: What Wave Can’t Do
• Appendix B: Contribute to The Complete Guide to Google Wave

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Twitter Lists are a new feature which allows you to group people into sets - even people you aren’t following. This is a great way to organize your Twitterers into lists such as: librarians, family, friends, etc. and then click into those lists for a tweet stream of what those people are saying. Josh Catone at Mashable has put together a guide to How To: Use Twitter Lists, and Jennifer Van Grove provides instructions as to how to Embed Your Lists on Your Blog.

The folks at Educause take a look at 7 Things You Should Know About Google Wave, the next-gen email application forthcoming from Google. This helpful guide answers the following questions about the program:

1. What is it?
2. Who’s doing it?
3. How does it work?
4. Why is it significant?
5. What are the downsides?
6. Where is it going?
7. What are the implications for teaching and learning?

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Bernard Moon, Managing Director of the Lunsford Group, writes for Mashable about 4 Emerging Trends of the Real-Time Web. This brief article takes a look at four upcoming real-time Web trends such as search, (ie. Twitter), collaboration, (ie. Google Wave), analytics, and Ecommerce.

OnlineCourses.org has compiled a mega-list of 100 Incredible Open Courses for the Ultimate Tech Geek. This comprehensive guide presents 100 free resources to develop your tech skill set. The courses are divided into the following categories:

• Computer Science and Engineering
• Computer Security
• Programming
• The Web
• Software
• Information Technology
• Communication Technology
• Technology in Education
• Tech Math
• Technology and Society

The Non-profit Tech 2.0 blog recommends 10 Tips for Managing Social Media Burnout. If you’re on the brink of information overload, you’ll want to scan this helpful list of suggestions. Here are their top five:

1. Don’t update your organization’s profiles on the weekend.
2. Pick a time to quit in the evening and stick to it.
3. Pick one social networking profile and keep it entirely for fun and your personal life.
4. Sometimes just leave the smartphone at home.
5. Take time for lunch.

Ross Kimbarovsky, co-founder of crowdSPRING, gives Mashable readers 10 Small Business Social Media Marketing Tips. Each recommendation outlines both basic and advanced strategies for leveraging social media tools to reach your goals. Some of the tools & suggestions discussed include:

1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. Company Blog
4. LinkedIn
5. Participate On Other Blogs
6. Mobile Social Networks and other Local Strategies
7. Comments and Conversations About Your Company
8. Multimedia
9. Maintain Brand Consistency
10. Leverage Combinations of Social Media Tools

Robin Broitman at IIG has pulled together over 50 resources to identify and target social media influencers in How-To Influence Influencers- Bloggers, Tweeters & Others. If you want to learn strategies for word-of-mouth marketing, you’ll want to check out this list which is divided into the following categories:

• Identifying, Targeting and Courting Key Influencers
• Blogger Outreach and Relations
• Tools and Lists

The Nonprofit Tech 2.0 blog has a quick guide to Five Essential Apps for Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Page. Many of these apps would also be particularly useful for a library’s FB page as well. During my presentation at the Suffolk County Library Association yesterday, I suggested two of these five for library Facebook pages, I can’t wait to check out the other three.

1. The Static FBML App
2. Causes App
3. Involver Apps
4. Social RSS App
5. Links App

You may also want to check out the blog’s Five Most Common Mistakes Made by Nonprofit Admins on Facebook.