A review on a post on Legal from My E-Commerce blog

Review on online beauty product fraud

Online fraud is very common these days. Even we are using PayPal which consider as the safer method of payment. Fraud still happens every day. As an example, we can know that at least 66 people were cheated almost RM73,445 when they performed online purchases of skincare products from the blog. Normally fraudster will attract people to purchase the product and do the online transaction with offering cheaper price.

We can take some steps to prevent and fight online transaction fraud like PayPal Protection, Credit Card fraud protection, Internet Crime Compliant centre etc. people or customer normally cheated because of the price of the items was cheaper than those off the shelf or market rate.

Some of this website will try to confuse the user with the product branding that might look like the original that the user is looking for while others will use psychology method where a time period for certain promotion that look as if a good deal to the visitor that caught them off-guard with the special bargain.

Fraud website are mostly look like ordinary website, thus user should do more survey and towards that website before concluding any transaction. Thus it will be advisable that the customer should try not to do any transaction with unknown website.

Michael Chong also advised the public, especially teenagers to be more careful when doing online purchase.

For more information, please refer to the link below:

• How to Fight Online Transaction Fraud
• Beware of e-frauds
• Survey Says Online Fraud Is Increasing As More Merchants Take Steps to Fight It
• Online Fraud Protection

 

E-Government in Malaysia: Its implementation so far and citizen's adoption strategies

The Malaysian Government launched the Electronic Government initiative to reinvent itself to lead the country into the Information Age. E-Government seeks to enhance the convenience, accessibility and quality of interactions with the public and businesses at large; simultaneously, it will improve information flows and processes within government to improve the speed and quality of policy development, coordination and enforcement. Citizens and businesses are also able to transact with the government anywhere and anytime at their convenience.

The my Government Portal (www.gov.my) acts as the one-stop source of Malaysian government information and services for the citizens.


The e-government implementation in Malaysia:
1. Language barrier

• Some of the government websites still using Bahasa Malaysia although some of it has change to English.
  

2. Technological barrier

• Lack of technical infrastructure.

3. Online behavior

• Malaysians remain skeptical on being distrust on electronic transaction especially on online banking buying from an Internet store.
  

4. Lack of public awareness

• Public are not aware of the services offered.

Strategies for citizen to adopt e-government:

1. Provide websites with multiple language versions.
2. Increase awareness through TV and radio advertisements, and organizing workshops at shopping malls.
3. Provide consultation services on how to use those services.
4. Simplify procedures needed to access to the e-government services.
   

The adoption of e-government brings more convenient to Malaysian and people no longer need to walk to the office to pay their tax form and etc. They can pay it through the internet. Nowadays, this implementation still not popular among Malaysian but in the future this will be a great benefit for them.

Click the links below for more information about E-Government:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Government

Corporate Blogging: A new marketing communication tool for companies

Corporate blogs are giving established companies and obscure brands alike the ability to connect with their customers on a more personal level, build trust, collect valuable feedback and foster strengthened business relationships. More importantly, these companies are enjoying tangible returns in their blogging investment in the form of increased sales, partnerships, business opportunities, press coverage and lead generation.

Blogs are actually an efficient and fast way to have discussion with customers, share tips or even collect the feedback from them. It may then return with the continuous performance improvement of the company.

A successful corporate blogging may lead to the increase in sales, better performance and also closer relationship with either the customers or the business partners. Blogging is relatively much more cheaper as compare to other communication strategies. Therefore, it becomes more common within the organization as new marketing communication tool.

Definitely, corporate blogging also have some limitation. In most if the case, people may be talking out of the topic or may use blogs to comment negatively about the company which can lead to bad publicity. Besides that, if a blog failed to comply with all applicable local, national and foreign requirements for doing business, it can lead to legal liabilities. When the degree of openness is low in the organization, the blog tends to represent an anonymous corporate identity.

References:

http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/06/30/most-corporate-blogs-are-unimaginative-failures/
http://www.helium.com/items/254062-the-pros-and-cons-of-corporate-blogging
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/28/news/companies/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm

A discussion on E-learning offered in Malaysian universities: Pros and Cons from the students perspective

E-Learning is the use of technology to enable people to learn anytime and anywhere. e-Learning can include training, the delivery of just-in-time information and guidance from experts. Distance learning is something that has evolved from Elearning. It is used to describe a learning environment that takes place away from the actual traditional classroom and campus.

Pros

• Convenience

It allows students to work and learn at their own pace without the unyielding time restrictions of traditional learning.

• accessibility.

Students can learn from anywhere in the world. This is an especially important consideration for students who wish to study in a different country.

• time flexibility

E-learning provides access to learning materials at any time, students have the flexibility to schedule around families, jobs and other activities.

• Communication

it encourages and enables students to collaborate and communicate with their fellow students as well as their tutors. The innovative use of live online tutorials, discussion forums and email ensures that students can get access to the Internet are constantly in touch with each other.

Cons

• Lack of interaction between teacher and student

While a teacher cannot easily feel a student's demands, interests and motivations, a student can simply be lazy being non-motivated enough and having free time schedule for his e-learning. Some students need the immediate feedback that interaction provides.

• Isolation

students may feel isolated and unsupported while learning. Instructions are not always available to help the learner so learners need to have discipline to work independently without assistance.

So now that you know some of the advantages and disadvantages, you will be able to make the decision whether E-learning is good for you or not.

References:

http://www.answerbag.com/articles/Advantages--Disadvantages-of-eLearning/3f3013fa-e6c3-4052-38ae-1c9b67bfdf20
http://www.1stopbiztro.com/_mgxroot/page_10752.html