What will you read in 2010?

In the middle of the run up to Christmas it sometimes feels as though nothing will happen until we've reached the 'other side' of the holidays. In particular, if clients haven't decided to start a new project now, they probably won't pick up the phone until 1st working day of January, which in my experience has often been a frantically busy day. So a good way to think of this period if you're not currently busy on a project is as time to prepare and think about how to approach the market in the New Year, what new things you're going to try and how you're going to develop your skills and practice to make sure you get the best and most interesting projects.

On that note, there's been a lot of debate recently about whether the future lies in on-line news or if printed papers and magazines still have a place. I know a lot of people rely on industry magazines to keep up to date with developments and new ideas and I thought it would be interesting to get a view from you as to what publications (on-line and off-line) you rely on. We've done quite well in getting news about Skillfair consultants into the press this year and as part of our drive to support your own marketing so information on what you and your clients read would help us with that. If you have a few moments to fill in this very short survey we'll be able to give the Skillfair verdict on on-line/off-line and tell you which publications you should be aiming at for your own articles.

New Website for Skillfair

The new Skillfair website is finally here, we hope you like it. We've tried to keep the way that the site functions very similar to the old one while making use of the new design to make some tasks much easier.

One significant change that means you should check your profile is that we now allow you to specify whether you show your own name or company name on our directory and UK Consultants Map - so please take a few moments to login and make your choice.

if you have any problems using the new site, or spot any bugs, please email or call us and we'll sort things out as quickly as we can.

Skillfair site upgrade - Saturday 5th December

Well it looks like we're going to go for an upgrade tomorrow - so the site will be unavailable from about 9am. With luck and assuming no major hitches it should be back up and running by mid afternoon.

We've kept the functionality of the parts of the site consultants use as similar as possible to the old site, but the menus have changed and there have been some improvements to the profile pages to make them easier to use.

If you have any problems please email or call us as usual. NB if you can't see where to login, it's moved to the top right hand corner of the page!