Chris Norton – Norton Notes PR Blog

I thought this would do nicely for an end of year post, back in April, JD Wetherspoon’s announced that it would be closing down its social accounts with immediate effect But looking back nine months on, was this really the right business decision...

This post was originally posted on the Prohibition blog but I felt it would be useful to share this on my own blog too So a couple of weeks ago all of the chatter online (apart from Brexit) was all about the latest John Lewis advert and a little...

Google+ first landed on the internet back in 2011, eager for a slice of the social networking pie Launched to directly compete with Facebook, some did say at the time it was fighting a losing battle (me included) and it does now appear they may have...

So a couple of weeks ago I was contacted online and asked if I would be interested in receiving a free copy of the new book: The Art and Craft of PR by Sandra Stahl For those of you that haven't heard of her, Sandra is a co-founder of the PR...

The last twelve months at Prohibition have been particularly busy, with the team delivering some truly stunning work, much of which we will be sharing this Christmas but we felt we weren't really sharing a lot of the content we were producing So we...

It's been a busy week and this has made me smile this morning This video is part of a wider campaign from one of our clients uBer - the video takes a humorous angle on why marketers sometimes think it's far safer to go with a London agency I know I...

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...