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.

My eye was caught by this tweet today and I was flabbergasted anyone could have thought this was a good idea for a brand or a person to send out I don’t know what they were thinking and I can only suppose the brand wanted to get noticed for a...

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Yesterday was a pretty exciting day, not least because it was the football transfer deadline day and we saw the British transfer record broken but also because Facebook announced Facebook Places Deals product in UK and Europe and I think this is...

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This weekend was interesting as a Liverpool FC fan, we lost a manager who was a nice chap but didn’t look big enough for the job So Kenny Daglish stepped up after being asked and he selected the team for the match against Manchester United The...

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Happy New year to you all, last night was a bit stranger than normal, not just because my whole family are currently struggling with one of those nasty winter viruses but because we experienced an earthquake sat at home It was just after 9pm and I...

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You will remember we have been running a competition online for Audio-Technica, well we now have the winner Here it is in all it’s glory – the winner is Zebedee Budworth with Astropets We received more than 1,500 votes on the final shortlist and...

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In this country cameras and any other form of recording equipment are banned from our courtrooms to stop the media interfering with live trials, but this week the British Chief Justice actually ruled that there is to be no ban on using the social...

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You might remember that I posted a while back about a social media campaign we have been running for the global music manufacturer Audio-Technica We ran a social media audit and workshop for them and created an online strategy which included...

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I was reading my feeds this morning and came across this little gem from our friend Darren Rowse at Problogger He has put together a nice infogrpahic on what makes the perfect blogger outreach campaign I have worked on a lot of blogger outreach...

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In November a good friend of mine Charlotte Britton, conducted a survey with businesses in Yorkshire to find out how companies in the region were utilising social media marketing One of the most interesting statistics I noticed was that 75% said...

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This post idea came from a chat I had with a current client the other day, we were discussing the success of their corporate blog The client is happy with the work that we have done to build the social presence of his company up However, he then...

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