Author: Chris Norton

Chris Norton is the founder of Prohibition and an award winning communications consultant with more than twenty years’ experience. He was a lecturer at Leeds Beckett University and has had a varied PR career having worked both in-house and in a number of large consultancies. He is an Integrated PR and social media blogger and writes on a wide variety of blogs across a huge amount of topics from digital marketing, social media marketing right through to technology and crisis management.

This week I attended the brilliant Thinking Digital in Newcastle The conference had some truly world class speakers and some awe inspiring presentations from building a home on the Moon through to solving virus outbreaks across the planet It is...

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This week I was up in Newcastle attending Thinking Digital a cracking digital conference/experience "for those who have a desire to learn" The diversity of speakers and topics were fantastic from the Chief Information Office of the HMRC  right...

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I know I don't ever really cover being a parent on the blog but I wanted your collective advice on something so bear with me on this My little boy Jacob is six and this year he took up football This wasn't because I asked him too it was because some...

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This piece of work caught my eye today, Zoopla the property search site has produced its Property Power 100 which is a list of the top 100 estate agents in the UK I think is a fairly nice piece of work - rather simple but smart The reason for...

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This video is worth watching don't be put off by the five minutes on the clock - I would love to hear your thoughts Mary McCoy from Continuum Marketing Services sings a humor-laced theme song for this year's Social Media Marketing World The song...

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If like me you love some clever creative augmented reality you are going to love this stunt from Pepsi Max The brand surprised commuters with in its own words "an unbelievable experience" at a bus stop involving giant robots and UFO abductions!...

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I have been working in public relations for more than 16 years and although I love my job, and the industry finally seems to be adapting to the modern world, one thing that never seems to get better is the formality, bureaucracy and procurement...

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An Norwegian underwear producer called Devold put its protective clothing to the test in a PR stunt and videoed the whole thing and then sent it to me The workwear brand set fire to a base jumper and sent him over a cliff in something which did...

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Yesterday, my social media agency Prohibition held another of our strategic social media seminars and the topic was on the much discussed issue of social media ROI However, instead of me banging on about my thoughts on this issue for once I have...

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I get approached quite a lot to cover technology stories or products that aren't particularly relevant to me but WiFi on trains, hotels and restaurants is something that I feel quite strongly about I just have to ask myself how many times have I...

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