HootSuite adds support for 750M more users: China’s Tencent Weibo, and Russia’s VK.com + MORE

This is the first part in a three-part series on how to build your online presence for real social selling, inspired by research from Jon Ferrara, founder and CEO of social CRM developer Nimble.
Socialized selling isn’t about blasting mass emails on Linkedin, or sending out coupon codes on Twitter – customers are becoming increasingly disenchanted with this kind of push messaging…

Leap Motion CEO Michael Buckwald today announced on a conference call that the shipping of the company’s 3D Motion Controller would be delayed until July 22nd. The reasons behind it, Buckwald says, were about ‘living up to expectations’.
“There’s nothing catastrophically wrong,” Buckwald added, “we’re very proud of the product…if we’d tried very hard we would have been able to ship the product [at the original time] but we wouldn’t have had the time to do the iteration and testing that we would want to do otherwise…

Although consumers are using mobile devices more than ever, not everyone is using a smartphone. With that in mind, Facebook has updated Power Editor and the Ads API to give advertisers a “feature phones only” placement option.
A feature phone has additional functions over a basic phone capable of just voice calling, but it isn’t quite on par with a smartphone’s capabilities…

Samsung Mobile is this week’s top gaining product and service page in the People Talking About This metric. No other product and service page came close to matching this page’s level engagement, earning almost 1.4 million more engagements over the week likely due to an ad campaign.
This list of top gaining product and service pages is compiled with PageData, which tracks page growth and engagement across Facebook…

On Saturday night, President Barack Obama will deliver a rousing speech to a room full of journalists at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C.  Audience members might reward his jokes with laughter or applause, their voices ringing through television speakers to the viewing audience at home…

Today we’re announcing a few improvements to Twitter for Mac: Photos: It’s easier than ever to share photos. Simply click the camera icon in the lower-left corner of the Tweet compose box, and choose a photo to share. If you prefer, you can still drag and drop photos from the desktop.Retina display support: Now Twitter is even more vibrant and detailed on the highest resolution Mac notebooks…

Social network scheduling startup Buffer continues to grow, and is now on track to make over $1 million in annual revenue with over $100,000 coming in from clients per month. The company now has over 600,000 users, and over 10,000 paying users as of this month, signalling significant growth from December of 2012, when it had 400,000 total users, and a third of its current social shares per month…

Fresh from the Jimmy Kimmel School of Blowhard Shaming comes this video of ever-expansive NFL Draft fans pontificating, as they do, on pro prospects’ relative strengths and weaknesses. The catch? The players in this video, including a Buster Highmen and one Neil Antblo, don’t exist
SEE ALSO: How to Follow the NFL Draft Online

Kimmel set a high bar this week when his show hilariously interviewed Coachella fans about bands that don’t exist, but this video from FootballNation is a worthy follow-up indeed…

Facebook has launched Facebookbrand.com to replace its previous brand resource center. The new site is more visual and offers additional guidance about how to use Facebook’s logos and trademarks in print, film, broadcast and online.
The social network redesigned its “f” logo earlier this month, but as of last week hadn’t updated its brand resource center with the new version…

William Jefferson Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America, has officially joined Twitter.
You’ll find him under @billclinton.
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In perhaps the clearest sign yet that enterprise social media management tool HootSuite has major global ambitions, the company announced this morning that it is adding support for managing China’s most popular microblogging platform, Tencent Weibo, and Russia’s most popular social media network, VK…