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Actress, Comedienne and Director Kathy Burke presents Anna Scher with her WFTV award This month saw the annual Sky WFTV Awards, a very glamourous and uplifting event that saw almost 1,000 of the film and TV industry’s most influential figures gathered to celebrate the year’s most inspiring women. Skillset is committed to supporting women in the . . . → Read More: Congratulations to the winners of the WFTV Awards Round up of the first session at BBC College of Journalism Social Media Summit: Cultural Change – what elements are need to make cultural change happen in the news room. With Kevin Marsh, Peter Horrocks, Raju Narisetti and Meg Pickard. . . . → Read More: BBC College of Journalism Social Media Summit: notes from the Cultural Change session What do Willy Wonka, Lamborghinis and nearly 400 freelancers have in common? Fast Train! In 2010, 28% of publishers reported skills gaps in their current workforce; with 64% of those reporting gaps in sales and marketing; 50% in technical skills; 46% for software; and 38% in business and entrepreneurial skills. These findings – drawn from Skillset’s recently published Sector Skills Assessment - highlight an increasing deficit in the skills required to develop . . . → Read More: Will there be a ‘Talent Time Bomb’ for Publishing? Tomorrow I will chair a seminar titled ‘The Talent Time Bomb: Can Publishing Learn New Media Skills?’ at the London Book Fair. We are fortunate to be hosting a panel of four impressive speakers from across the Creative Media Industries. And the topic? To discuss whether publishers are destined to fall behind other media industries because of . . . → Read More: The Talent Time Bomb: can publishing learn new skills?  3 comments  Creative media, Film, Games, Interactive, Publishing, Skillset, TV  #lbf11, Alison Young, Ben Grass, books, digital, e-books, Earls Court, ebooks, Fresh One, GAMESbrief, London Book Fair, Nicholas Lovell, Pearson, Publishing, Pure Grass Films, skills, skills shortages, skillset, Zoe Collins When people think of Health and Safety at the workplace, they tend to think of mopping up spillages, sitting up straight at your desk and taking breaks from your computer screen. But what if your everyday job involved death-defying stunts, deliberately treacherous weather and even the occasional automatic weapon or angry tiger? How can you be . . . → Read More: Safety first, then Lights, Camera, Action… Film and TV join forces to raise skills in health and Safety Live and direct from Norwich… not Sale of the Century, but #1000flowers – a conference/unconference talking about local TV. (Hat tip to the twitterati for the Nicholas Parsons gag). Organised by Rick Waghorn, journalists, entrepreneur and owner of Addiply, an online ad solution for websites, this is a brief summary of lunchtime’s opening session including Rick and . . . → Read More: #1000Flowers – Local TV discussed in Norwich |
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