Among these findings you'll also see that the average age on social media networks is in the thirties.

Social media moves out of experimental mode into maintenance mode as marketing budgets continue to favor this emerging channel. In terms of measuring the value of this effort, search traffic increases account for the highest proportion.

Just because you have a butch of followers on Twitter doesn't mean you're influential

Most use social media as just another promo channel

Problogger explores whatmakes some blogs rise to the top of the pile.

If you wonder why all your Twitter friends are retweeting your every missive, don't despair. They are probably just being passive.

A beautifully executed presentation on the relevance of social media, as you'd expect from those Jess3 guys.

TurboTax discuss how important Twitter is to their social media strategy.

An aggregation of some of the top tips out there from industry standards like Chris Brogan, Mashable, Twitip...

If you are setting up a Twitter account for business purposes, think through the strategy and what you want to achieve.

Brian Solis lists business use cases for Twitter including Customer Service, Discounts and Focus Groups.

a collection of graphs showing the current state of Twitter. Much of this is comparison of Facebook versus Twitter.

If these stats are to be believed, LinkedIn is a much more popular network for B2B marketers. Question: could other parts of the organization be running Twitter/blogs?

"The key of a Social CRM is the fine bond between non pushy social relationship building and business objectives." Learn how Alex Shultze uses social CRM to transform the sales process.

Charlene Li explains how social media can help business owners conduct market research, understand their customer base and build closer relationships with followers.

According to Edison Research, awareness of Twitter has exploded from 5% of Americans 12+ in 2008 to 87% in 2010 (by comparison, Facebook's awareness is 88%). Usage is still eclipsed by Facebook.

Latest data from Chirp developer conf reveals stats from the microblogging giant. Also of interest: 75% of users access service through a client rather than via the website.

Find out how to incorporate Twitter into the very essence of your site or blog.

Interesting point that you can Tweet about older content on your blog - after all, you may find a new audience for old posts.

Great notes on creating a social media plan, including making sure you secure your space on Twitter.

Examples from around the web, such as Wine TV Library numbers that show they gained 1,800 new customers from Twitter.

Some great insight and statistics including the proportion of retweets that have links (much higher than the general population).

The number of CEOs using Twitter has grown substantially, according to this report by BusinessWeek.

A new Twitter service allows web publishers to tie Twitter to their site allowing easier integration of services like authentication, listing and Twitter links.

How Business.com used a combination of blogs and Twitter to increase visibility and understand more of their audience's needs and habits.

So now that we're hearing social media is the new search marketing, here's a bunch of tools to help you optimize both.

Most of the current influencers joined the network back in 2007. Unlike the world of search, few established brands make the heady higher echelons of Twitter influence.

Four out of the top five corporations on the list post regularly to their Twitter accounts. As with blogs, the top 100 companies have the greatest share of social media presence.

Social media usage has increased from 12% to 24% for 2009. Surprisingly, Facebook is the most-used tactic.