Weekly comms news round up 10/02/12

Friday! Time for my weekly pick of comms news curated from @CisionUK.

Facebook to launch first mobile ads within weeks by @Jessdaviesmk via New Media Age

“The social network has been expanding its mobile presence gradually over the past year, but is yet to exploit significant revenue from its mobile offering, a fact it revealed in its IPO filing last week.”

It’s time for journalists to take Facebook seriously via @wannabehacks WANNABE HACKS

“Facebook has grown into a network of unprecedented size – 845 million active users – and has insinuated itself organically into the everyday lives of over half its users. Facebook is already where masses of ordinary people discuss politics, share memes, start riots and spread revolutions.”

62% say they never revisit a company after a bad customer service experience via @thedrum The Drum

“62% of over 2,000 Brits surveyed by Enterprise Rent-A-Car have said that they would never revisit a company which gave them bad customer service, with 34% believing that customer service in the UK has got worse over the past decade.”

LinkedIn to introduce mobile adverts by @Emmabarnett via The Telegraph

“Jeff Weiner, the chief executive of LinkedIn, said on an earnings call last night that the company was now ready to “start to introduce advertising in our mobile solutions”.”

Platform Five – This week’s most useful new social media tools and platforms by @AdamVincenzini via Paratus Communications

“Brrrrrr! It might be snowing in London (and incredibly cold!) but that hasn’t stopped us from serving up a collection of this week’s hottestnew social media tools and platforms.

To help warm you up, were giving this week’s post a ‘green theme’ – yep, the green we all want more of, money.

Let’s introduce our money-spinning tools to you one-by-one…”