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 am an administrator on quite a few Facebook fan pages I use the platform with some of my clients depending on whether the platform fits the client’s communications strategy There are good things and bad things about Facebook A good thing is it...

Read More

I had to share this today as it made me smile, Tom Murphy placed this video on his blog at it cheered me up no end How many of us have seen pointless PR embargoes Well this video pokes fun at them and the world of social media marketing –...

Read More

Many of us working in the world of digital public relations and social media are often asked by our clients to measure how effective our online campaigns have been This can be done in various ways across different platforms but I thought I would...

Read More

My friends down at Rising Digital have just published one of their artists latest videos which is worth a watch Nastla’s crazy is much more mainstream than the usual dance music Seb and the guys distribute but the video is very interesting It...

Read More

One of our social media clients wwwThebusinessdeskcom which started out as a  regional business-to-business news portal a couple of years ago launched its new site for the Midlands yesterday This is after the success of its North West version which...

Read More

An article in The Economist last week claimed that public relations companies are feeling much better about things and doing far better financially The article stated: “According to data from Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS), a private-equity firm,...

Read More

I read an interesting post yesterday that made me sit up and scratch my head The article was all about Manchester Utd placing a formal statement on its website which read as follows: “The club wishes to make it clear that no Manchester United...

Read More

If you work in marketing or public relations, the chances are you are now regularly being asked to use social media to spread your client’s messages I have met lots of marketers and business owners who are surprisingly still trying to figure out...

Read More

Unless you have been hidden under a rock recently (or an avalanche) you can’t have failed to have heard that the UK has ground to a practical standstill following an attack of bad weather I live in Harrogate in the north of England and work in...

Read More

This is the first guest post I have had on my blog and it’s from Nick Hill, a director at Binary Vision I have known Nick for a while now and seen him speak several times, his knowledge and expertise in behaviour and interpersonal skills are...

Read More

If you would like to speak to us about delivering a social media training programme

Please feel free to drop us a message

Contact us