Weekly comms news round up 01/06/12

Happy Jubilee weekend All! This week’s comms news round up curated via @CisionUK.

Twitter tracks users’ movements across web by @Emmabarnett via The Telegraph

“In an email sent to its users today about changes to its service and privacy policy, Twitter said: “We’ve provided more details [in our new privacy policy] about the information we collect and how we use it to deliver our services and to improve Twitter. ”

Facebook sponsored ads – 44% of people say they would ‘never’ click on them by Krishna Rao via @mmkforum New Media Knowledge

“As expected, 50% of respondents to Greenlight’s survey said they use Facebook for social engagement, sharing photos, and catching up with friends and family.

Facebook ranked as the third most popular website (after Google and YouTube) when asked ‘How regularly do you use the following websites/services?’. It ranked second when asked ‘Which of the following do you use on your mobile phone?’, with roughly 30% of those surveyed saying they use Facebook on their mobiles and tablets.”

New Digital Journalism journal to launch in 2013 by @rmcathy via journalism.co.uk

“A new academic journal is to be launched in February next year which will focus on emerging trends in digital journalism.

Digital Journalism will be edited by professor of journalism studies at Cardiff University Bob Franklin, who already edits Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies.”

Top 5 most common blogger outreach mistakes and how to avoid them by @KatieFincham @britbloggers via The Wall

“You might think blogger outreach is a piece of cake; surely anyone can manage simple blogger relations? Wrong. A lot of companies jump on the blogger engagement bandwagon without any prior research into this domain, leading to various issues.”

Internet set to overtake TV as most complained-about ad medium by @marksweney via Guardian

“The internet is on the brink of overtaking television as the most complained-about advertising medium in the UK, with the ad regulator recording a surge of almost 300% in the number of consumers registering concerns over digital campaigns to more than 10,000 last year.”