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Thanks to the wonderful people at NESTA we at BaseKit were able to attend the ‘Social Media – A Force For Good’ talk as part of the ‘Silicon Valley Comes to the UK’ series of events. The talk and general discussion was from Biz Stone – one of the founders of Twitter, Reid Hoffman, social networking trendsetter and LinkedIn supremo and the UK’s foremost Twitterer – Mr Stephen Fry.

The talk itself veered wildly from the idea as social networking as a force for good, and in to the general area of what social networking means for individuals and organisations, the future of social and a discussion of the recent events that social networking has had an impact on. Insightful and entertaining it was a great event. Rather than give you all a blow by blow recap we suggest that you have a look at the video here.

We would also like to point at that from our vantage point we noticed that Stephen Fry was wearing socks that looked like shoes with laces up the front….

It’s a historic day at BaseKit HQ as we begin the first phase of our marketing assault. We know that the Internet is a vast space and we cannot reach our potential users through simple word of mouth – electronic or otherwise.

To that end we have launched our first advertising campaign by announcing the death of PSD slicing. Because, well, that’s what BaseKit does – it eliminates the need to slice up Photoshop designs into code. PSD to site without the pesky plaintext middleman. The above advert is running on the very excellent web design and development blog Smashing Magazine – a wonderful hub of potential BaseKitters.

We’re looking forward to seeing Smashing Mag’s readers take on BaseKit – we hope they find it as useful as we think it can be, and fully expect a flood of feedback. (We are in beta – we LIVE on feedback!)

Like we’ve said before, BaseKit is simple to use. But even the most simple of tools need some guidance before they can be used effectively and to their full potential.

This is why every Friday afternoon our useabilty expert – Mr Gordon Plant – hosts a live Webinar demonstrating BaseKit’s functionality and answering your questions. Usually this will take the form of Gordon showing you how to build a site from a Photoshop document and then explaining one of the features in more depth, like editing the CSS or how to use layer effects…

We can even send you the files used in the demo so you can put the site together yourself, and of course Gordon will answer any questions you may have. You can also suggest features you want to see in future directly to people on the BaseKit team.

We use Webex to deliver the Webinar, so all you’ll need is an internet connection. Of course it’ll be much better if you’ve got a mic and a webcam, but it’s up to you!

So, if you’re interested in finding out how to get the most out of BaseKit mail us at beta@basekit.com and join in!

We try to keep things simple at BaseKit – we believe that the BaseKit site builder tool is simple enough to be explained in less than two minutes. So we made this video.

BaseKit from BaseKit Team on Vimeo.

OK, only just less than two minutes, but still!

We think it covers the main points about what BaseKit can do, but there’s plenty more in depth tutorials and demonstrations to be found on our Vimeo page. They are well worth checking out if you have a passing interest in our site builder or are stuck into the beta and need to figure out how to do something.

We hope to expand our video collection in the near future with more specific tutorials and spotlights on our features.

If you’re interested in BaseKit – why not sign up to our beta and stay in touch by following us on Twitter