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.

Last week I noticed a couple of articles in PR Week on one of my favourite subjects - football It has been well documented that more and more owners of Premier League clubs are now coming from foreign countries and that is bringing its own set of...

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Warning this is not a PR related post! You may have noticed I haven’t posted for a week or so – well that’s because I have been away on holiday to the coast I managed to drag myself away from Wolfstar for a few days and took my little boy and...

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Here is a quick story which might interest you Hartlepool FC has decided (for commercial reasons apparently) to ban all photographers and reporters from its local paper the Hartlepool Mail In response to this the Northern Echo, which covers most...

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Last night I went to see my friend, fellow blogger and former colleague Sebastian Mysko who now works for Chris Lake and Rising Music I have posted before about how Chris and his team are using social media to spread the word about the label and...

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I was reading a post this morning from Matthew Watson who has pulled together an interesting list of the top UK PR blogs from the Ad Age 150 which considers advertising, marketing and PR blogs from all around the world Unfortunately, there are...

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Matthew Watson has tagged me on the latest meme to find inspirational communicators Here is the blurb about it: "The idea’s simple We’re asking you to list the three communicators living or dead who have most influenced your way of thinking...

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Well after ten months of being at Wolfstar I think I might have finally made a good impression We’ve been shortlisted in the Outstanding Small Consultancy category for our regional CIPR PRide awards I am quite chuffed with that as I did the...

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I have seen an article on the front cover of PR Week this morning which has got me pretty annoyed At Wolfstar we applied to be included on the COI roster, in the hope that we could offer our services to the public sector Now I should stress this...

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I have been reading lots of posts about the time it takes to manage social media, ProBlogger recently asked the question: "How long does it take for you to write a blog post" and after 294 comments the average seemed to be around an hour I have...

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I have just read a great post on PRsquared about what it's like doing an internship at a public relations agency The message Laura was trying to disseminate is PR is not that glamorous but it can be fun In fact, I thought it was so true to life...

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