Weekly comms news round up 17/02/12

My weekly pick of comms news curated from @CisionUK.

The Drum overtakes Brand Republic and Marketing Week to become number one media and marketing website via @thedrum The Drum

“According to Google Ad Planner The Drum is now the best read media and marketing B2B website in the UK.”

Getting into digital: new guide for students and graduates by @agwp via Econsultancy

“Econsultancy has today published a Digital Marketing and E-commerce Careers Guide, aimed at UK students and graduates looking to get into digital marketing and e-commerce. The report, which is free to download, is a goldmine of information for aspiring digital marketers and provides constructive advice along with industry insights to better inform those looking to enter the industry.”

What is the future of sharing? Study [infographic] by @gordonmacmillan via THE Wall

“A very good event this morning at London Social Media Week run by digital agency Beyond on the Future of Sharing. It presented research that is perfectly distilled here into a very decent infographic. The focus ws on what is being dubbed “frictionless sharing”, which with the introduction of Facebook OpenGraph we are seeing from brands like Spotify, Ticketmaster, AirBnB. Soon a lot more brands we join that small cadre.”

Twitter tweaks its privacy guidelines after storing address book data via @Guardian Guardian

“Twitter says it will make privacy guidelines more explicit after it admitted copying entire address books from people’s smartphones and storing the information on its servers, according to reports.”