Blog only for individual? NO!!

When the word "blog" comes to you, what will you think of? Something that an individual use to communicate with others, reflect and share their live? If this is your answer, the followings will be useful for you as it may helps to broaden your knowledge.

Nowadays, blog has become one of the hottest communication tools on the Web. Not only individual maintains a blog, According to Fortune 500 Business Blogging, many companies are following the trend. One of the purposes companies maintain corporate blogs is for marketing use.

Advantages

Maintaining a corporate blog is less costly and less technical skills needed. It is an ideal marketing tool as it can be access by potential and existing consumers from any part of the world. And this will eventually helps to boost the company profit. Most important, it gives consumers opportunities to express their feeling about company's products and services. Consumers can also comment or give any suggestion on it. From that, the management will have knowledge about what are the products that preferred by consumers. And what are the problems with those less preferred products and ways to improve them.

Corporate blogging brings benefits to the companies, but some how, there are also limitations.

Disadvantages
A blog is open to everyone. This means that, any one can write something on it. If someone post something bad about the company's products or services (even it is not the truth), it will harm the company's reputation. Since the corporate blog can be viewed by everyone around the world, the impact is very huge.

Starbucks is maintaining a corporate blog called “My Ideas in Action”. Basically, it is a blog that allows members to share, vote, discuss and see. When a consumer post an idea to Starbucks, the management will know what action needs to be taken to improve. Besides Starbucks, other large companies such as Nike and Nokia, they are also maintaining a corporate blog to get closer to their customers.

For those who thought only individuals maintain blog previously, hopes that the above helps you to gain additional knowledge.

Review on post on Legal issue from My E-commerce

Currently, there are many legal issues arising from piracy problem. The piracy issues can be illegal download of songs and movies, and trademark as well. The common piracy issue is the illegal downloading of songs and movies. Everyone can easily get the songs or the movies from some web services provider without paying any money. This has created some problems to the producers of songs and movies because they lose up many of their revenues from there. Thus, there is down trend of those industries whose is producing such products. However, there is a new proposed law in UK where there will be an action taken against the users who use their account access to pirated material by the internet services provider. As the result, any users who get caught will be brought to court and face the compound imposed.

Google? Froogle? Guge? Sounds similar? As the result, there are many lawsuit cases where Google suing or being sued by the competitors who is using the similar name. For more information, please click here. Furthermore, there is also an issue on Youtube where they faces the lawsuit from EPL and also Viacom.com, which own MTV and Nickelodeon for showing 160,000 unauthorised movie clips. For your information, Youtube is under Google which means that, Google has accumulated many lawsuit cases.

Click here for more information and your benefits as well......

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Florist Malaysia

Love.com.my was launched in year 2004. Love.com.my Sdn Bhd is a Malaysia Florist (online florist) specializing in free delivery of fresh flowers including Hand Bouquets, Flower Basket, Fruits & Flowers, Gifts & Flowers, Congratulatory Flora Stands and Cakes. The area delivered is within Klang Valley and main cities in Malaysia.

The flowers they sell are more affordable or cheaper than others because their business model is not based on physical shop or store, hence, can avoid and save a lot of rental. They also do not spend a single cent on mass marketing such as billboards, newspaper or TVs. Besides, they also do not incurred money in printing flyers, catalogs, brochures and so on in order to promote their sales. People just have to check up their website in 24 hours per day, 7 days per week which is fully updated.


They provide the best service for their customers by delivering flowers to specific someone that required. The flowers will be delivered to the designated address on the same day when the orders take place before 3pm. However, if the orders take part after 3pm in the afternoon, the flowers will be delivered the following working day. They accept payments through Visa or MasterCard credit card and Maybank2U. Others methods like postal or money order and cheque are also acceptable.
Here are the assistance and contact details to online florist within Klang Valley.

e-Government in Malaysia---> www.gov.my

As Malaysian, how often do you access to Malaysia government websites (http://www.gov.my/) and use the online services provided?

Actually, these government websites and online services provided are referred to as e-Government (electronic government). It is an electronic platform for us to interact with the government, exchange information and use the public services provided from our homes. There are various services that we can perform in e-Government such as pay taxes, renew driving license and etc. Besides, it also improves the efficiency and effectiveness of government functions and makes government more transparent.

e-Government can be classified into four types: government-to-citizens (G2C), government-to-business (G2B), government-to-government (G2G) and government-to-employees (G2E).The followings are focused on G2C.

e-Government- Success or Fail?
It depends on the citizens' willingness to adopt and utilize the services provided through Internet. No matter how efficient and effective the system is, without the support from citizens, e-Government will be a failure. There are quite a number of reasons why citizens do not utilize the online services provided such as unfamiliar with Internet and lack of confidence with the security of information.

Citizen's Adoption Strategies
In order for e-Government to be adopted by citizens, it should be citizen-centered which means provides end-user or demand-driven services. Moreover, since some of the citizens are unfamiliar with online transaction, the design of government website should also be taken into consideration. It should be ease to use and convenience. Citizens are concern about how secure the information is when performing online transaction via e-Government. Thus, the system must ensure that the users' information are secured and not disclose to any unauthorized party.

We, as the Malaysia citizen, should work together with government by adopting and utilizing the online public services provide to make e-Government a success. Success in e-Government not only benefit the government, but we will also benefit from it such as no need to travel all the way to government department to renew license and pay summon.

Things to take note to prevent e-auction fraud

Nowadays, Auction does not neccessary to be held in an auction room or a hall. Due to advancement of technology, Auction can be conducted at your house, even in your bedroom. This refers to the "e-auction".




E-auction websites should have considered the followings in order to prevent e-auction fraud. Now, let's take a look on some of the tips preventing
e-auction fraud.


User identity verification
It is basically a program that encourages users to provide some information in order to be verified online. This information could be IC number or even date of birth.

Escrow services escrow.com
Escrow services could help to protect e-auction fraud as both sellers and buyers are protected with a recommended independent third party. Third party will hold the funds untill buyers received and inspect the items.

Feedback forum
Feedback forum allows the users to comment on their experiences with an individual. This could help to build the sellers' and buyers' online trading reputation.

Nonpayment punishment
Warnings and punishments such as suspensions from auction will be taken towards those buyers who commit the offense.


There are also some other protections could be taken place against e-auction fraud. The link below would provide you more tips on preventing e-auction fraud.
http://www.fraud.org/tips/internet/onlineauctions.htm