Pamela Vaughan says, “Social media is an extremely valuable tool for promoting all your awesome marketing content. But with so many social networks providing their own individual content sharing and follow buttons, it’s often difficult to know which social media button to use for what purpose. Be confused no more! We’ve put together a handy, comprehensive guide to help you understand the differences between the share and follow buttons for the top five social networks (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and Pinterest), as well as how to implement them on your website, blog,... [...]

Xiaofeng Wang says, “As social media adoption continues to grow in Asia Pacific (AP), so too does marketers’ spending on social advertising. Forrester’s just-published Asia Pacific Social Media Advertising Spending Forecast, 2014 To 2019 report projects that social media ad spending will continue its rapid growth over the next five years. In this period, marketing leaders in Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea will increase their investment in advertising on social media (excluding mobile messaging apps) at a 21.6% compound annual growth rate, reaching $5.8 billion by 2019.... [...]