Chris Norton – Norton Notes PR Blog

So the social network juggernaut that is Facebook took another step forward with its face recognition software for photographs this week Basically the new Tag Suggestions feature scans photos and automatically picks out existing friends by guessing...

On Wednesday I attended the Social Network Debate which was held by my good friends Lucre Social  and the topic we had up for discussion this time was “Are social networks are a distraction for marketeers” There were a lot of senior marketers...

I have worked in PR for more than 13 years and I must have pitched more than a hundred times, it’s one of the best bits of the job Ask anyone who works in PR it’s tiring but brilliant The thrill of coming up with new and interesting ideas and...

Warning this is a self-promotional post from someone who is pretty happy! I have just got back to work today after seven beautifully sunny days in Kos with my family and after going through the obligatory work related emails I stumbled across a...

Please excuse me if this is a bit of a rant but I felt the need to get it out of my system once and for all You would have to have been hidden under an extremely large rock this week to miss the story about a twitter user revealing the details of...

So Tweetdeck is reportedly selling its platform to Twitter for $50million I think this is a really positive sign for both Twitter, and UK entrepreneurs in general, as too often it is the US Silicon Valley-based businesses that manage to secure all...

This is PROBABLY the coolest video I have seen in a long time This video has been filmed to help reposition the Carlsberg brand I have to say Carlsberg have done some pretty clever executions over the last couple of years but this is up there with...

Adrian Bridgwater, a freelance journalist and social media friend of mine tweeted yesterday that he was going to share his golden rules of public relations I have been following Adrian for a while now and I find his insights, from the other side...

I read a great post on the launch of a new page Facebook has launched called Journalists on Facebook It is Facebook’s attempt to get more journalists using Facebook rather than Twitter but I have my reservations with this as an overall concept...

This is the first of three posts I plan to do on the Premier League’s use of social media I was doing some desktop research for a client the other day and I came across Man Utd’s Facebook page and I noticed it had more than 11 million likes and...