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Jobs and Financial Crisis
sds-i have limited their hiring of staff now mainly to free-lancers for particular projects.
The Financial Crisis has an effect on all businesses large or small. At least we are in the position of developing a range of new projects and products and work with people from around the globe on these highly interesting ventures. We even invest money into some of the businesses of our clients. Most of the investment goes into infrastructure and materials.
However, as we provide a lot of our work for little and often no fee, we can rarely offer more to the people we work with. As we take shares and forward looking interest in these businesses and projects we pass such opportunities on to the people we work with.
On such a basis there are jobs here to develop new skills, to build something into the future, to learn by collaboration and to be part of an organisations when so many have lost even the basic links to a work place and opportunities to discuss and move something.
Please contact our HR colleagues through Jobs@sds-i.com
B2B-Book "Development of Shopping Centres in Russia"
Christian Cuhls, MD of sds-i, is the author for the Chapter "Concept Development".
The book is only available in Russian Language from Russian Council of Shopping Centres (RCSC), Mall Magazine and Bookshops.
News Editors
We are looking for
News Editors
interested in adding their professional experience, skill and knowledge to a new online venture.
A unique opportunity to build your professional profile.
We are look like to build up a team of news editors for one of our clients.
Initially the task would be mainly to monitor and add news feeds (RSS). This is a highly automated task and if you are already reading the news on a regular basis you might enjoy adding relevant headlines to the news listing here.
If you are interested to develop this further into organising the news in more detail we are happy to discuss the opportunities in due course.
Please contact Viviana by email - Jobs@sds-i.com
Authors & Co-authors / Editors
We are looking also for:
authors, co-authors and editors for two interesting projects online:
Retail Handbook
we are looking for Authors / Co-authors and Editors. - Please contact Viviana by email - Jobs@sds-i.com
Development Handbook
there is room for Co-Authors happy to take on certain chapters. - Please contact Viviana by email - Jobs@sds-i.com
You can add your experience, skill and knowledge to these projects and build your professional profile.
Moderators
We are also looking for:
Website Moderators
for a new online venture.
Please contact Viviana by email - Jobs@sds-i.com
Malls & More beta now online
We moved the professional information and networking site www.mallsandmore.com for client Malls & More ltd. into beta stage - on the 16.08.2010.
The site now has a new front page displaying the core areas of information and networking.
New members during beta stage will join as Early Members (EM).
There will be additonal services and all members are able to post their contributions on the site directly to Twitter and LinkedIn just by adding a tick in a box - pressto.
Malls and More to move to beta stage
The end of the alpha stage is now in sight. The target date is 16.08.2010. From that day or shortly after beta stage will be running.
What does it mean?
For all members subscribed and with an active profile by that day there will be no change - you will be a First Member with the status FM and the benefits detailed in our ToU. The benefits for FM include free membership and sharing in the success of m&m.
All those joining during beta stage will automatically receive the EM status - Early Members. The benefits for EM include free membership.
What more?
- We expect to grow the site more quickly.
- We will develop additional services.
- The various databases will be extended and
- we will always be happy to follow member's suggestions and add features.
- Preparation of the full release in the Autumn 2010.
We may not quite be ready in the Autumn but the system will be very close to full release as we are already running a fully tested site.
Malls and More online for 7 months
MallsandMore.com (m&m) is now in it's 7 months and alpha phase will end shortly.
We have added various features including a newsletter, more mall listings, currency calculator for pay-check with live exchange rate feeds and calculators for finance, mortgage and affodibility.
The handbook is growing step-by-step and membership is increasing, though the system could handle more.
The uptake of the newsletters is encouraging and we have more than 6.000 subscribers currently.
Malls and More online for 4 months
MallsandMore.com (m&m) has now been online for more than 4 months and we are coming to the end of vigorous testing in alpha phase.
Needless to say it took longer than expected. But we added two important features:
- Probapbly one of the largest Mall Directories online for free. There are more than 5,500 malls listed in over 30 countries. The depth of information varies and we are looking to members to fill in more detail along the way.
- Check-your-Pay is a database covering more than 30 countries as well listing salaries for people in Centre Management. Members can add a record or more, ideally, and this will give them access for 3 months to the data. Then all you need is add a new record. The data entry is anonymous and no member will be able to see who added what. The database is displayed in sortable tables allowing members to view it in many different combinations.
Next is increasing the membership and we started a low key web marketing approach while still in alpha phase.
Come and have a look at www.mallsandmore.com.
Opportunities in Online Publishing - Retail, Entertainment, Mall Development
sds-i are currently involved in a major project related to online publishing in the field of
retail, entertainment, mall development, real estate projects related to shopping and entertainment centres.
There are opportunities for:
Editors, Moderators and Authors
Please contact Viviana by email - Jobs@sds-i.com
Translation Online
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We are looking for a free-lance translator for English to Russian for some small work on this website and another project ready soon.
The work will require working on-line and some knowledge of CMS, preferable Drupal 6.x, would be an advantage.
Please contact Viviana by email - Jobs@sds-i.com
Malls and More is online
Finally we launched MallsandMore.com (m&m).
m&m is a B2B site for professionals in the business of developing, designing and managing retail projects from a single shop to multiples to malls of all sizes.
This site is open by invitation only to active people working in this field.
MallsandMore.com offers really just two things:
- Information and
- Networking
- plus the environment of being around colleagues, competitors and some friends working actively in this field.
Naturally each heading contains several areas from handbooks to forums to RSS syndicated news and more ...
Have a look to see if it is interesting to you and contact m&m directly to join - you could send an email to membership_mm@mallsandmore.com.
sds-i.net provided the technical and web design support. sds-i ltd is in charge of the initial contents, management and implementation.
Opportunities in Online Publishing - Retail, Entertainment, Mall Development
sds-i are currently involved in a major project related to online publishing in the field of
retail, entertainment, mall development, real estate projects related to shopping and entertainment centres.
There are opportunities for:
Editors, Moderators and Authors
Please contact Viviana by email - Jobs@sds-i.com
HRN appointed sds-i.net
HRN appointed sds-i.net to develop a Drupal based CMS website to provide networking and information for Harley Davidson bikers.
The new site is due to be launched at the end of 2009.
A fresh look - the new sds-i.com website
sds-i have launched their new website using Drupal as the base. This was an in-house project successfully completed by our devision of sds-i.net and a great thank you to all our colleagues who helped in bringing togehter Web Design, Technology, Strucutre and some interesting new ideas.
A great part of the work is to make less be more to remove clutter and too much information. If something is missing please let us know and send an email to our Webmaster. We appreciate all comments.
sds-i launched sds-i.net
sds-i.net is a new division of sds-i providing IT and Internet related services for developers and other service companies in and around Shopping Centres.
sds-i.net developed out of our various IT activities for a number of international clients developing handbooks, websites Wiki-Services, internal information systems, etc.
sds-i.net will work mainly with Drupal for Website development, eGroupWare, OfficeZilla and other packages for internal and external team work.
We are also assisting companies to migrate part or their entire computer systems to a Linux environment to reduce IT cost and to improve overall security of data and their network.
sds-i secured a commission from PLV Inc.

PLV Inc. Group asked sds-i to develop a series of Web sites for their independent technology divisions.
sds-i will coordinate and develop the websites for a number of core technology ventures to allow external communication to the general public, to investors and third party consultants, as well as for company in-house communication and project-team coordination.
The websites will include internal, project-related communication in order to reduce and eventually replace email based team coordination.
ATP commissioned sds-i with Web Development

ATP appointed sds-i to develop a series of Web projects for the various areas ATP are active in to promote their services for Retail Project Management.
The web based services will allow developers and retailers to integrate their tasks of renting, providing the required space and fit-out in a more efficient and transparent process.
This will help to cut preparation time and actual work on site.
Expo Real - Munich 2008
International Conference & Exhibition of Shopping and Leisure Centers
Mall Expo - Kiev - 2008
September 17-19, 2008, Kiev, Ukraine - 15 Brovarsky ave. IEC
Presentation by Christian Cuhls:
Why, when and how to improve shopping and entertainment center (SEC)
September 17, 2008 at 10:25



