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.

In my new role as social media coordinator for CIPR Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, I have advised that initially it creates an open Facebook group to share more information with its members and non-members To be honest, it's not the most exciting item...

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After much deliberating it seems I have to take my beloved HP laptop back to the shop I currently use a HP Pavilion dv9000 and it was specifically chosen by us as its an award winning laptop with a lot of hidden added extras As we (Wolfstar) work...

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I have seen a few interesting articles this morning reporting that social media hasn't been utilised as much as was expected by UK advertisers It seems that British advertisers are still lagging behind those of the US who have been exploiting...

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I know what you're thinking - why the title Well, two reasons firstly because its tenuously linked to James Bond - I realise it's really Austin Powers and extremely sad - and secondly because of the gadget which I had to write about as it made me...

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Well not a day goes by that we don't seem to be sent a new social networking tool to test out at Wolfstar and no sooner have we have all started using Doplr and Twitter in our daily lives and along comes another service called Friendfeed FriendFeed...

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I have just received the attached video by email, which Seb and I thought was very cool A big thanks goes to Mr Justin McKeown for supplying it and brightening up my day I always like to see football being played well - probably because I play like...

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I picked up The Guardian this morning and read an interesting article by Mark Sweney about the Financial Times which plans to create an exclusive social network The proposed scheme will be a membership only network costing a fee of £2k a year for...

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We seem to be getting bombarded with figures on circulations and readerships at the moment but I thought I would highlight a few interesting trends in the online media world which have made me think Apparently, The Guardian has kept the number one...

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I have just read an interesting post from Roy Gleenslade reporting that online unique users and circulation figures will now be added together in a new report format for the first time - this is a big step forward He reports: "It will reveal that...

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I have just read an interesting post on Tech Digest about a new start-up company called YouNoodle (I am loving the name) which claims it can predict the business successes of the future using artificial intelligence The company has been created by...

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