Hi everyone! From now on in the Bandzoogle blog, we will offer our members the opportunity to ask questions to some top music industry experts. Our first "guest" on Ask an Expert is Ken Lewis.

Ken is a Producer / Mixer / Engineer / Musician / Songwriter for over 14 years. He has worked with top selling artists like Kanye West, Beastie Boys, Usher, Lenny Kravitz, Janet Jackson and Bandzoogle's own Small Town Sleeper. His credits include 2 Grammy's, 38 Gold and Platinum albums and singles, 19 #1 albums and…

With all of the updates planned for 2006, we soon realized the need for another programmer to join our team. We've finally found him!

Louis Galipeau has joined us from Ottawa, Ontario Canada. Louis is a Coldfusion programming guru and part time digeridoo player (Didgeridooer?). He'll be working closely with Eli to revamp Bandzoogle and add much requested features in the near future.

Welcome abord Louis!

You can now make topics on your forum "sticky", so they stay at the top. This is helpful when you want to post the rules of the forum or anything you don't want to get pushed down by new topics.

Weedshare is a new way to sell your music online. Once you encode your track in the Weed format (which is based on Windows Media), people can listen to it up to three times before being prompted to purchase it.

The neat thing about weed files is that they encourage people to share the music (legally) by sharing any profit evenly with anyone who refers friends to the file.

Weedshare is a new company, but since it is based on Windows Media, anyone on a windows PC should be able to hear the tracks. When…

Ladies and gentlemen, your forums have been thoroughly spiffed! They now feature a more professional look-and-feel which all of you phpBB junkies have been requesting. As well, you can now organize your forum topics into multiple groups, or "boards". All of your existing posts have been put in a default board called "General Board", but you can create other boards and move topics around as you see fit.

We've gotten a number of requests to make the forum use your local time zone. We decided to go one step…

Happy new year everyone!

Its usually around now that people take stock of their past year. To see how they've grown, and where they want to grow in the future.

I've been doing the same with Bandzoogle. Re-reading all your posts in the community, and your email suggestions. Seeing what we did in 2005, and what still needs to be done. Checking out how Bandzoogle members are using the system to make sites, and what can be improved.

Bandzoogle will be 3 years old in October 2006. We have grown very…