Hello all!

Well, just in time for the weekend you'll have noticed a big set of changes to the front page of MusBook... finally a bit of color returns to the site, as we re-introduce the 'newest members' box along with a great little dropdown menu that will take you straight to a world map of other users. Want to connect with choirs around the world? Click the dropdown and click choirs, and you'll be magicked across to a world map with everyone there! We do need to improve the way the map and the results are laid out, but we'll get to that soon.

Back to the front page... there's a new TV listings box on the right which will start showing all the latest MusBook TV programming (we hope to get that started next week). You'll find the recent activity feed now shows 30 pieces of recent activity on the site, and the latest job listings, posts from the MusBlog (that's this blog!), Groups, and events are now available all from the front page.

If any of you used the old MusBook Test Site a few months ago, you'll remember the layout, and we've brought across a lot of the design from there - we didn't quite get it right, to be honest, when we started this Beta site, because we experimented with putting content first on the front page, before the social network activity.

But MusBook is fundamentally a social network... it may be a content site and a TV network too, but social activity and networking is what's at the heart of the site. We won't be forgetting that again in a hurry!

There are *loads* of new innovations lined up for the next few weeks - our developers in the India office have a to do list that's longer than you could believe! - and we can't wait to show you what's coming up in August. But in the meantime, we are very grateful for any feedback, suggestions, or ideas that can help us refine further what's already on the site, so please don't hesitate to write to us at support [at] musbook.com and we'll do our best to make your ideas a reality!

More news next week!

Yours,

Justin @ MusBook Support

PS our Melbourne office is now updating the new Job listings service throughout the week! So you can find more bang-up-to-date music job vacancies than ever here on MusBook.com. Click here for the Classical Music jobs!