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 esteemed colleague Mr Stuart Bruce has tagged me (AGAIN) with the 'My week in the media' meme So I feel obliged to list out what I have been up to so here goes: What I've read To be honest I like to break it up a bit and read several newspapers...

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It seems Sony's Blu-Ray format is finally winning the public relations battle of the high definition formats Blu-Ray and HD DVD have been frantically fighting a bitter war over the last couple of years - similar to the VHS Betamax one back in the...

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Stuart Bruce has tagged me with the 'Eight things you don't know about me' meme So here goes: I came sixth in the British DJ Championships at Earls Court in London and lost in the finals to the overall winner who went on to play across Ibiza in...

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Here is an interesting blog post I found whilst researching something for a client this morning Basically Jim Tobin from WebPro News takes an interesting view on how social media is just a distraction and adds nothing to your business It certainly...

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I celebrated the new year in the Lake District with my wife, Jacob and several of my friends We hired a beautiful traditional cottage in Eskdale, (about an hour from Ambleside) which slept eight people It  was a fantastic looking building with...

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It appears that the business community is starting to understand that social media has to be part of an effective public relations programme in 2008 Consumers across the globe are now actively using the popular social networking sites such as...

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Here is a story that I found on AP's newswire today, which I found rather concerning but equally interesting I have heard of magical feet before but never a magical leg Two men attacked an 80-year-old, self-proclaimed holy man in southern India and...

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About three months ago it was announced on Radio One that they were   changing their schedules, which meant the listeners no longer had to listen to JK & Joel - I will let you decide whether that is a good or bad thing However, I think...

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Over the last few months I have seen article upon article filling the back pages of the dailies stating that Rafael Benitez's position at Liverpool is about to come to an end Firstly, I think this is a load of rubbish OK, so he did have a public...

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There was an amusing story kicking about on the news wires yesterday  Love him or loathe him, former F1 world champion Michael Shumacher is certainly a well known face - albeit quite a wide one too Anyway, he decided to catch a cab in Bavaria...

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