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MND Functionality Enhancement: Email Forwarding Feature

2009-11-03T16:44:00Z

After receiving feedback from our users, we've made some enhancements we'd like you to know about.

Today, MND released improvements to our forward articles via email functionality. Previously we were using the 'Share This' functionality as a means to share our content. Over the past few weeks users began reporting issues with this functionality. As a result, we've added our own email forwarding functionality, with a few more bells and whistles.

You can now forward breaking news from multiple locations including:

Directly from the article you're reading - Simple click the 'Email Page' link on any article and fill out the form to forward the page.
From our email news alerts - If you receive email alertsfrom a specific channel, you can forward the article directly from the email alert.
From a forward - and anyone who receives a forward, can forward the forward. Did we say 'forward' enough?

So now, it's easier than ever to:

Send Breaking News to colleagues or friends
Forward to yourself as a means of bookmarking the article
or just spread the word about the great content you read each day at MND (MBS Commentary, Pipeline Press, MND Newswire, Mortgage Rate Watch, etc.)

Oh, and by the way, Registered Members (who are logged in), the email contains a link to your MND profile page.

Here's a screenshot of the email forward:

Limitations and SPAM

As a means to prevent this from being used as a SPAM tool:

Anonymous Users can can only forward to one user at a time.
Registered Users, that are logged in, can forward to 5 email addresses at a time.
The system is built to monitor sending activity and will blacklist anyone that abuses the functionality.

Happy forwarding!

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MND Announces New Blogs: Voice of Housing and Pipeline Press

2009-10-13T17:22:00Z

As our community crosses over 50,000 members, MND is proud to announce the release of two new blog channels: The Voice of Housing and Pipeline Press.

The Voice of Housing is a discussion forum targeting industry business leaders, entrepreneurs, and local, state and federal policy makers whose bias in connection with addressing the current financial services crisis is toward identifying and executing actionable ideas.

Pipeline Press is an informational forum focused on the interpretation and discussion of industry specific news, intelligence, bulletins, releases, developments, events, and even rumors.

The Voice of Housing is sponsored and written by members of the Collingwood Group, LLC. Contributors include:

Joe Murin, former Ginnie Mae CEO
Brian Montgomery, former FHA Commissioner.
Tim Rood, former Senior Director and Principal of Fannie Mae’s eBusiness Division
Brian O'Reilly, former Director of Automated Underwriting and Risk Management Solutions at Fannie Mae
Gary Cunningham, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regulatory Affairs at HUD.

Pipeline Press is written by Rob Chrisman, a 24 year veteran of mortgage banking with the majority of his career spent working in the secondary marketing department and capital markets desks. Prior to contributing to MND, Rob wrote and published his own daily market newsletter which was distributed to over 3,500 readers.

Registered members can receive an email update each time a post is made to either of these blogs by going to your 'Manage Subscriptons' page and clicking the 'Subscribe' link beside each blog you wish to receive notifications for.

RSS feeds are also available for both blogs: Pipeline Press RSS Feed Voice of Housing RSS Feed

If you are not a registered member, it's free to signup so JOIN NOW.

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News Widgets for Your Website

2009-04-07T18:33:00Z

MND is now offering customizable News Widgets for your website. Our News Widgets are a great way to add dynamic content to your website. By copying and pasting a small snippet of code into your website you can add up to the minute news headlines to your site. Here is an overview of the different options we offer:

Headline News Tickers

This option is will display news in a widget with different effects including scrolling, fading, dissolving and sliding. The size and colors are also customizable.

Begin building your customized News Ticker.

Full Page of News Headlines

We also offer a full page of news headlines. Click here to see and example or here to begin building your customized page of headlines.

Other Options

There are also a few other options to to display news on your website including Google Gadgets, RSS Feeds and our Full News Feeds.

Full News Feeds allow you to place the headlines and the full story on your website. Users do not have to leave your website. Packages for our full news feed start at $29.95 per month.

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New Tool for Your Loan Scenarios

2009-03-27T17:40:00Z

We know that no two investors offer identical lending guidelines and often times you would prefer not to be spending your days reading through regs in search of specific underwriting verbiage. If you have run into a loan scenario that requires niche lending products or just want to know who offers what programs this tool is for you.

Add a Scenario
You can add a scenario here. Scenarios are actually forum posts, so once the post is made you can discuss the scenario with other members of the community just as you would with any other forum thread.

Browsing Scenarios
Use our Scenario Search Tool to view all posted scenarios. You can narrow the results shown here by using our 'Search Filters'. Click on the 'Search Filters' bar to open the filtering options.

View the Scenario Details
Once you find a scenario that interests you, click on the corresponding row to view the details of that scenario. Here you can discuss the scenario with the poster or ask questions.

Contacting the Poster
If you'd like to contact this person who posted the scenario please use the communication tools provided by MND. These are found at the top of each post by click on the 'Contact' menu option. Please do not post your contact information in the post.

Other Tips and Tricks

Follow the Discussion via Email
You can follow the discussion of any loan scenario, or any forum post for that matter, by clicking on the 'Receive email notifications for this thread....' link at the top of the thread page. One click here and you'll receive an email each time someone posts to this thread. Have no fear though, unsubscribing to updates to the thread is as easy as subscribing was. When you're ready to stop receiving updates for that thread click the same link, which will now say "Turn off email notifications for this thread."

Follow the discussion via RSS
Similar to email updates, you can subscribe to updates via RSS. There is an RSS link at the bottom of any forum thread that will allow you to do this. If you're unfamiliar with RSS, you can start here. It is an excellent way to stay informed. I use my Google Reader all day, every day.

Finding the Loan Scenario Search Tool
The link to the loan scenario tool can be found in the Forums dropdown menu or at the bottom of any page.

We'd like to hear what you think. Please provide any comments or feedback below.

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MND on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN, etc.

2009-03-26T21:05:00Z

Those of you who participate in social networking sites may be interested to know that you can connect with MND on some of the more popular platforms such as: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or De.licio.us. We've provided links to MND on each of these platforms below. These links will also be available on the bottom navigation menu seen on any page on this website.

Twitter

We have integrated our platform to push updates to Twitter, or 'Tweets'. Updates include Top News Headlines, MBS Commentary Posts and Mortgage Rate Watch.

Follow MND on Twitter.

Facebook

You can add MND as a friend or join our Group.

Connect with MND on Facebook.

LinkedIn

You can connect with MND on the LinkedIn network.

Connect with MND on LinkedIn.

De.licio.us

Bookmark MND on social bookmarking site de.licio.us.

Bookmark MND on De.licio.us.

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The New 'Inside MND' Blog

2009-03-12T19:37:00Z

What's happening at MND? We're going to tell you.

We're excited to announce a new blog called 'Inside MND'. The blog will serve as a means for us to actively communicate with the community. Topics will include:

New additions and functionality improvements to our platform
Future Enhancements
Discussion of current features and how to use them
Announcements

Please feel free to comment on the posts and offer suggestions on how we can continue to improve our community.

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