The number of sign ups for Tweets, Connections (Facebook and/or LinkedIn) for our twice weekly e-mailed news updates grows steadily. These are all great ways to stay up to date with what is happening in manufactured and modular housing, as we Tweet updates and have these other tools to help you ‘stay connected.’ Sign up for our emails on our Subscribe link from the home page, and near the top right, you can connect with our social media.

We are winding down on August, which unless the sky falls the last 10 days, readers like you will deliver yet another record month for total visitors. That said, you should know that we may have occasional bumps in the road in the days ahead, as we get ready to make the changes to implement MHProNews.com and our new website format. We will move to a larger server to handle the anticipated traffic.  We have thousands of pages online now, and thus tens of thousands of links.  That’s a ton of moving.  The process – I’m told by our IT department – is never as perfect as one would like.

So if you experience some broken links, etc. – please do let us know by sending an email with the link you wanted.  Just say ‘broken link’ in the subject line. Thank you!

The incoming “e-mail bag” overflows daily with comments, questions, tips and more. Our email service tells us my tony@mhmsm.com mail e-mail bag averages over 200 messages in and out daily – and those are the individual messages – not spam or email lists – in and out. So if we ever fail to respond in a timely fashion, please understand and do not hesitate to email – or call – again.

As August winds down, do read all of our feature articles from our fine writers, and download your favorites. September is just around the corner and we will have a new set of feature articles ready to inform, stimulate and educate.

Among the calls and messages this past week were ones from or dealing with state and national associations and related topics. Please do see the Cutting Edge blog for a very nice comment by Chad Carr and catch up on the national image and marketing campaign front.

The Daily Business News and Industry Voices have been getting more than their fair share of visitors too. But don’t overlook Words of Wisdom and the Inspiration blog. We certainly need Inspiration and some Wisdom these days.

I want to thank you and all who send news tips (please put News Tip in the Subject line of your email), thoughts, articles or who sponsor our work on the Industry’s behalf.

FYI, occasionally we get a ‘false tip’ or a message, or some ‘news’ about someone of such a personal nature that we simply find it inappropriate to publish. We do mostly hard news, some occasional ‘fun news’ items too, feature articles or views columns.

So while our Daily Business News items does report arrests and convictions that are Industry news, there is a logic to doing so. Who slept with who’s significant other – no matter how high up the food chain they may be – is really not a news story we think is for for us or our audience. We are not the Enquirer or some tabloid.

My apologies to those who love that sort of thing.

I have a few calls and emails that I would love to get into today, but we have a lot of work to do before the end of the day, so maybe next time. But do let me encourage you to take a good look at this past week’s manufactured and modular housing Daily Business News. There are some really good items there that you may use for your business, or that you or your association may find helpful with politicians and others.

Thanks again for signing up, logging in, reading and spreading the good word about the your one stop shop for Industry news, tips and views you can use – daily! # #