Amalie, April 4th, 2012
At the end April we’ve got the exciting opportunity of speaking at the SharePoint Saturday in Belgium. If you’ve not come across SharePoint Saturday’s before then they are a brilliant, community led, conference which typically happen every year (and all over the world).
Here at Mando we use PowerShell alongside our SharePoint development which allows us to control and manage our deployments and configuration. This is what Adam Burcher, our specialist SharePoint programmer, is going to cover during his talk – showing just how flexible and useful PowerShell can really be. PowerShell isn’t just for SharePoint, but is becoming more and more common amongst a lot of Microsoft products. Whilst typically it falls into the IT Admin remit, PowerShell is extremely useful (and arguably essential) for a developer as well. The out of the box commands that come with SharePoint are very useful, but being able to exploit the SharePoint Object Model and write your own means what you can do is almost endless. It means if you can write the C# code for it, the chances are you can write the PowerShell too.
During the session Adam will be walking through how PowerShell can be used at each phase of a site roll out, from installation and through the way through to custom deployment of code, configuration and content! Watch this space for more details!
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Amalie, June 29th, 2011
One of our senior designers, Joanne Finch, has taken on the mighty challenge of running the Liverpool marathon this October. She is running to raise money for the Countess of Chester appeal, Relative Comfort, who are collecting funds so they can create a “home from home” environment for the relatives of patients in the critical care unit.
Over the coming months, the Mando Group Foundation is going to support Joanne with her mammoth challenge and we’ve adopted her charity for the remainder of 2011. To launch our adoption of the charity we are holding Mando Group’s very own Wii-mbledon, a tennish championship with a difference. Our staff have been battling it out on the Wii to become the Nadal or Williams of Mando Group.
Today our 4 finalists will be donning their tennis whites and stepping up to the challenge to determine the Mando Wii-mbledon Champion of 2011. Matches will commence at about 5pm so check out the players profiles below and keep up to date on Twitter @mandogroup and if you would like to support a player you can make a donation.
Semi finals: Chris Vs Oli followed by George Vs Dan
Final: Chris vs George
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Amalie, March 9th, 2010
In a late run for the £100 challenge a group of staff from Mando are offering an Apple iPad as the prize in a charity raffle.
Through combining the buzz and desirability around the Apple iPad with the opportunity to donate to a good cause, the team expect to generate a lot of interest. They have set themselves an ambitious goal of raising £10,000 by the end of March.
The raffle tickets are available for just £2 each with all money being collected through the Just Giving website and passed directly to the Disasters Emergency Committee Haiti appeal.
For more information please have a look at our website http://ipadcharityraffle.mandogroup.com
Or just go straight to Just Giving and make a donation for your chance to win. http://www.justgiving.com/MandoCharityRaffle
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Amalie, February 9th, 2010
With time running out to make money for the £100 challenge, Amalie and Christian have created their own Handy little book of tried and tested recipes.
We wanted to create a book of all our favourite recipes, some are our own creations, others have been passed down from generation to generation and others are tested improvements on original recipes.
The book has gone recently gone to print and so will be on sale in the next few weeks but you can have a sneak preview and order your own.
If you would to support the Mando Group foundation and would like a copy of the book either buy through the link above or contact amalie.hughes@mandogroup.com
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Amalie, February 3rd, 2010
Following its unveiling just ahead of Christmas, digital agency Mando Group’s new website for Northwest firm Penketh’s is already showing a significant return on investment.
Penketh’s are suppliers of office products and services that include stationery and furniture, as well as refurbishment and a recently added recycling facility. They are amongst the top 20 UK firms in the sector by size and were recently awarded the 2009 Dealer of Excellence Award by the British Office Supplies and Services Federation. Mando Group’s appointment to the firm’s website project came after a competitive tender process.
The resulting site is the product of a rigorous 18-month development process. Having launched during the party season it’s now providing cause for further celebration after stimulating a leap in online sales from 35% of all transactions pre-launch, to a staggering 46% in just a matter of weeks.
As a huge e-commerce portal designed to carry a massive twenty eight thousand unique products at launch, the site combines greater functionality with increased simplicity. Overall it allows both Penketh’s and their customers to benefit from streamlined end-to-end integration.
Key features include:
- Greatly improved data exchange to better connect internal systems.
- Improved search and browsing capabilities.
- Personalised tools, to allow business customers to manage their spending effectively.
- Online management systems that allow users to assign products to particular budgets.
- Mechanisms to offer targeted promotions and encourage repeat purchase.
Speaking about the new site Penketh’s Managing Director, Mark Penketh, said:
“Service and progress are both key elements of our business. The new site allows us to offer fantastic new facilities and features to our customers, particularly our business account clients. I’m delighted with the figures, which show just how valuable the new site is proving for all concerned”.
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Amalie, January 26th, 2010
Award-winning company, Mando Group says it’s feeling optimistic about prospects for the Northwest’s digital sector in 2010 and has announced the appointment of 4 new staffers, plus the promotion of 2 key team members.
The news follows a string of national client wins for the digital agency, details of which are expected to be released in the coming weeks.
The new appointments see Mando Group bring on board two project managers, both of whom have significant digital agency experience. Additionally the company has recruited a social media specialist, along with a further team member, to increase the size of its managed services department.
Meanwhile, two promotions have seen the internal appointment of Martin Chapman Fromm as Creative Director and Jonathan Seal as Head of Consultancy. The new positions are intended to reflect, not only the capabilities of the team members in question, but to cement Mando Group’s commitment to drive return on investment for its clients through high creativity and user-experience expertise.
Speaking about his enhanced team Mando Group’s Chief executive, Matt Johnson, said:
“The quality of our service has been key to our sustained growth. Having secured several major new pieces of business, the time was right to boost our team in order to continue offering the first-class digital that our new and existing clients have come to expect from us”.
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Amalie, January 18th, 2010
It’s amazing how quickly you forget about a bit of snow when you hear about an entire country devastated by the effects of an earthquake.
We’re sure many of you visiting our blog will want to make a donation to the people of Haiti.
To make it easy to do it right now, whilst it’s fresh in your mind, we’ve added links to the key aid organisations donation pages below. Please give as much as you can.
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Amalie, December 16th, 2009
2010 will see digital agency Mando Group officially launch the Mando Group Foundation, to enable a significant portion of its profits to be donated to good causes. As an exciting precursor to the launch, Mando Group’s founders have laid down ‘The Awesome £100 Challenge’.
Each of the company’s 45 staff has been handed £100 and challenged to grow that fund as much as they can. All the proceeds raised will be added to the fund available to good causes via Mando Group Foundation grants. The company’s charitable foundation is managed by The Community Foundation for Merseyside.
The challenge will run throughout December and January and will culminate with an award ceremony at the Mando Group Foundation launch party. Prizes will be awarded for the most amount of money raised and the most creative or entrepreneurial methods used. The only rules are that the methods used to raise the cash must be legal, honest and decent.
Speaking about the initiative Mando Group’s CEO, Matt Johnson said:
“We’ve started the Mando Group Foundation as a way for our company and our staff to make a positive difference. The challenge should be a lot of fun for everyone and promises to raise many thousands of pounds for good causes”.
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Amalie, December 16th, 2009
The new Places for People website created by digital agency, Mando Group has now officially launched. The project comes after Mando Group was selected to enter a 3-year framework agreement with Places for People as their digital partner for website and CMS technology.
Places for People is a property management and development group. Mando Group are delighted to have been able to deliver such a major piece of work on their behalf.
The site is a flagship Immediacy ™ content management system offering for Mando Group and provides Places for People with a fantastic platform from which to showcase their incredible reach as an organisation.
Key project aims have been to highlight the organisation’s housing development activities, whilst maintaining the people-centric approach that is at the heart of its operation. Mando Group’s response to the brief has, in particular, included high levels of accessibility to WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) standard.
Commenting on the launch of the new site Mando Group Chief Executive, Matt Johnson said,
‘The opportunity to work on this project alongside Places for People’s own team has been incredibly exciting. They have an extremely capable internal IT and marketing resource, which offered a fantastic opportunity for us to deliver collaboratively’.
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Amalie, December 10th, 2009
Liverpool digital agency, Mando Group, have launched the online hub www.artforplaces.com for 3-year public art project ‘Art for Places’.
Art for Places aims to deliver regeneration through inspiration and will help communities use public art to reshape their neighbourhoods. The initiative is a partnership between NewHeartlands (Housing Market Renewal pathfinder for Merseyside), Liverpool Biennial and Arts Council England, along with local authorities and housing associations. It will create a public art commission for each of the three areas involved in the project: Sefton, Wirral, and Liverpool.
Mando Group already works with both arts and regeneration organisations, making the project a natural fit for them. This year they won a ‘Big Chip’ award for their work with not-for-profit organisation Liverpool Biennial.
As a unique new initiative the Art for Places project needed a simple, yet powerful online hub to ensure people can readily grasp and engage with the concept. Mando Group rose to the challenge by creating an up-to-date, feature-rich and user-friendly website which supports the existing Art for Places branding, all within the quick turnaround time required for the project.
Features of the site include Web 2.0 integration, with Flickr galleries and Google Search, plus other facilities to encourage community participation, including mailing list sign-ups. Plus Mando Group have also integrated 3rd party forms with an online management area for their client, completing the excellent value for money package provided.
Speaking about the project Mando Group CEO, Matt Johnson said,
“ We’re delighted to be involved with such a worthwhile initiative and with the resulting site. The Liverpool region has much to offer its residents and we’re proud to be helping it build on those assets to ensure future success.”
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