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.

I have written various posts on here before about identifying influential sites but I thought it was worth posting today because I have found a tool to use to make this process a whole load quicker The Google Chrome SEO plug-in takes all of two...

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I have been really busy recently, with this launch and that, but in my spare time I have been reading quite a lot on the ROI of social media and scratching my head As more and more of these amazing buzz monitoring tools spring up out of the woodwork...

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As many of you know for the last six months or so I have been really busy working in online public relations both freelancing for my own clients and working as a digital consultant for the lovely people at Lucre Communications in Leeds To be honest...

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Those of you that read my blog regularly will know I have been working on a couple of exciting internet projects during the last six months in my quest to become the next Steve Jobs (Joke obviously) One of these said projects is TheFashionPixiecom...

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This weekend I really witnessed the power of Twitter and social media and it surprised me for the first time in a long time On Saturday I was busy at home cutting the grass and doing my fatherly duties, when my mother turned up at our house with...

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Dear Facebook, As an administrator on several fan pages for our clients and it has become quite apparent that there is no way to moderate comments on one of your fan pages Personally I find this a little daft as blogs have had this type of...

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I have been writing online conversation reports for clients for a number of years now and during that period of time it would be understandable to think that we have seen significant changes in the social channels that are influential in these...

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So there we all were scratching our heads wondering how Twitter actually made a profit And then it decided to change its strategy by scouting the world for talent to hire for its new business team to help secure much needed revenue Well, the...

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UPDATE: This will now be launching around end of April as we have decided to add a few more features following feedback from some Twitter users A while back I wrote a post about an internet (fashion) community I am involved with...

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So we heard late last night the news that we all feared David Beckham isn’t going to make it to the World Cup in South Africa As a proud England fan who has watched our team stutter and start through various tournaments I have to admit I am not...

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