Chris Norton – Norton Notes PR Blog

In my opinion interns and work experience students should and must be paid I started out as student on the PR degree in Leeds many years ago and I got work experience from year one with several agencies The first couple of internships I wasn’t...

I have been pretty busy during these last few months speaking at various social media conferences and events discussing a lot of different topics but the big one has been the latest social trends Now although I am OLD (don't laugh) I don't proclaim...

Who doesn't love a good old tasting surprise PR stunt And here is the most recent example with our friendly baker Greggs fooling a load of foodies at a food festival They all think they are trying some local artisan delights when really the food...

There has been some big news in the last few days in the world of social and I am not talking about Privacy No I am talking about Flickr, the forgotten social network for images, that was created more than 14 years ago, which was quickly sold to the...

I was approached about six months ago by Football Freestyler and TV presenter, John Farnworth to help him with a charity campaign as a favour John is a truly lovely bloke and he is aiming to add a ninth Guinness World Record to his list by reaching...

When was the last time you came across a marketing campaign without a video element Can’t remember No me either, these days it’s a real rarity With the help of Instagram, the first visually focused social network (well apart from Flickr), video...

Are you fed up of fake engagement on Facebook These days it’s pretty hard to log on to your Facebook without seeing ‘tag that work colleague you couldn’t survive without’ or ‘like if you’re hungover this morning’, however, thankfully...

Mark Zuckerberg’s plight for worldwide domination was coming along nicely In fact, it seemed all too easy, that was until Snapchat When Spiegal declined a decent offer of $3 billion back in 2013 from Mark Zuckerburg, the owner of Facebook,...

I have noticed a change in attitude over recent years of students that have picked PR or journalism degrees For those that don't know the PR degree (of which I sometimes lecture for) asks their students to get valuable work experience to get real...

Back in 2015 I wrote an article about my favourite walking blogs in the UK, the post received more than 40 comments and still proves to be very popular today However, many of the original bloggers have now put up their boots and since stopped...