It’s taken much longer than expected, but Skills Log is now officially live!

Skills Log aims to be the LinkedIn of the Facebook generation, focusing more on ‘what you know’ rather than ‘who you know’.

Current business networks focus on relationships more than skills and knowledge and are of limited use to people with few business contacts. Even if you do connect to contacts through a business network, what then? Social networks such as Facebook and MySpace also have their place; but do you want your colleagues and business acquaintances to see your holiday snaps and Bejewelled scores?

With Skills Log you can create a focal point for your professional career development by listing your skills, education and experience, and crucially rating your skill levels. With Skills Log you can:

• Create an interactive CV/résumé showing your skills and how skilled you are
• Search for skills to learn based on your occupation, so if you’re a budding accountant you can see what skills other accountants have (and therefore what you should maybe learn)
• Connect to your friends/colleagues/fellow students so you can see what they know, or search their skills to find anyone you know who might speak Spanish, or is an expert at Excel for example
• Add links and images to your skills or import them from Delicious and Flickr
• Create a focal point for your career development: work to improve your skill levels

We’re launching as a ‘private beta’ for a short period; so to register you’ll need an invite code. If you want to try the site out you can use invite code ‘csparkinvite‘ (while they’re still available), or submit your email address through the Skills Log homepage and we’ll send you a code when more become available.

You can stay up-to-date with what’s happening with Skills Log via RSS or twitter, and feel free to send us feedback about the site through this blog or via the feedback button on the site itself: we really welcome comments, good or bad!