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Interesting Links

Interesting links of the month: April

By Band Themer | Apr 24, 2010

This is a first of many interesting links of the month posts. We like to share services/products that might be interesting to bands/musicians.

- Social Bandmaker Learn the secrets that the music industry doesn’t want you to know, Check out > http://www.socialbandmaker.com

- Bandize.com Looks like a sweet app for organizing your band, Check it out > http://www.bandize.com/ We might sign up ourselves

- TuneCore Ever wanted to get your music on iTunes? Well now you can, Use coupon code ” beheard30″ and save 30% when signing up, Check out > http://www.tunecore.com

If you have any suggestions let us know and we might just add them to next months interesting links!

Thoughts | Tips

Tip: How to Automagically Display Facebook Fan Photos

By Band Themer | Apr 24, 2010

We like to share our ideas around here, and we have a new one. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites in the world! and people are using it to there advantage to find ways to connect with there fans, share ideas and music.

We came across a sweet wordpress plugin called “Fotobook” that allows you to have the photos you have uploaded to Facebook to display on your BandThemer website. Easy to setup and install you’ll be using it in minutes, It also uses a javascript library called Lightbox, If you click on the images you will get a larger preview of the image without having to leave your BandThemer site.

Out of the box this plugin will only show your personal Facebook images. For most people that’s fine but BandThemer users will want to show images that Fan’s have taken from shows right? So fans would visit your Facebook fan page, upload an image and automagically the fans photo will show up on your BandThemer site. So if this is something you want to do, check out this hack.

Hope this tip helps you guys out, Let us know if you have any other ideas so we can share them with everyone else.