Voyage to the world of E-commerce: week 6

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Review: New Rules for Cyber Cafe soon

Oh my! If I owned a cyber cafe I might faint on the spot upon knowning the "New Rules" which will be enforced by government soon.....

Let me state the "New Rules" once again

Have to close by midnight daily.
Banned from using tinted glasses in their premises. (must be able to see through from the outside)
Only allowed to operate from the ground floor.
Those under 12 years old must be accompanied by parents or guardian and only allowed to stay up to 10.00pm.
Prohibited from providing gaming activities, gambling, pornography, music and publications with negative element.
Cigarettes and alcohol to be prohibited from being sold.
A book log to record the entry and departure time of the patron

So what is in your mind now?

Cool rules?!

Great!

or......??

Well some of the rules are actually good such as those under 12 years old must accompanied by guardian. If the cyber cafe were to comply to such rules, it would surely benefits the society and make cyber cafe a better place to hang out.

This definately is a good start to nurture our future generation to be healthy in both physically and mentally. The reputation of cyber cafe will be changed. It no longer will be the place where teachers, parents and society have negetive impression on. It would be a place to share information, makes friends, learning new technology and so on.

But in the real case, many cyber cafe has failed to comply with the current law which are been considered loose. For example, although our government has restricted students who wearing school uniform to enter into cyber cafe but there are still alot of cyber cafe which "open the door" for the people who wearing school uniform. So I was wondering that will the cyber cafe comply with the new rules that are going to be enforced in future? If so, how are they going to make business out of it?

Perhaps the only way is creativity and innovation. The cyber cafe could provide more services such as reading corner and cafeteria to cater the needs to the customers.

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Sources:
Information

http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-rules-for-cyber-cafes-soon.html

Pictures & images

http://www.candidity.org/images/cyber_cafe.jpg
http://www.steinski.com/images/display/504blog_question_mark3.jpg
www.greenovate-europe.eu/files/u25/Innovation.jpg

Corporate Blogging

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Corporate Blogging as a new marketing communition tools

A corporate blogging is published and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. Hence, it’s allow people to posts and comments which is easy to reach and follow due to centralized hosting and generally structured conversation threads. Nowadays, a lot of major browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer 7 support RSS technology, which enables readers to easily read recent posts without actually visiting the blog and it is very useful for low-volume blogs.

There are many different types of corporate blogs, most can be categorized as either external or internal. An internal blog is generally accessed through the corporation's Intranet, is a weblog that any employee can view. The informal nature of blogs may encourage employee participation, free discussion of issues, collective intelligence, direct communication between various layers of an organization and a sense of community.

While, an external blog is a publicly available weblog where company employees, teams, or spokespersons share their views. It is often used to announce new products and services (or the end of old products), to explain and clarify policies, or to react on public criticism on certain issues. It also allows a window to the company culture and is often treated more informally than traditional press releases, though a corporate blog often tries to accomplish similar goals as press releases do.

In marketing terms, a corporate blogging can bring a human personality to a faceless company, which can create a connection between the corporation and the client. This can lead to deeper loyalty and richer feedback. Moreover, a corporate blog makes it easy for customers to find the latest and most accurate information about its new products and services.

Corporate blogging serves as a channel for a company and its customers to meet on common ground and to know each other more. A corporate blog allows a company to closely track the response of their customer on new product and service In addition, corporate blog conjures images of people who are passionate about their products or services and are eager to engage customers.

According to Lewis Green, “…as a way to brand myself and my business. But to be successful, my branding efforts must lead to work. Newspaper and magazine articles, as well as TV and radio guest appearances and my books have always done that. I saw no reason why blogging shouldn't be able to build my brand image, market my business philosophy and values, offer lot of free content for my readers, and lead to work. It has” he says.

Reference:
http://www.internetviz-newsletters.com/bulldog/e_article000404957.cfm

http://www.selfseo.com/story-19130.php

http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/community/features/guestopinions/blog/corporate-blogging-benefits-of-interactive-marketing/?cs=22957

www.streetdirectory.com/.../blogging/corporate_blogging_dos_and_donts.html

http://www.ximnet.com.my/thelab/comments_articles/comments.asp?id=15

E-Government in Malaysia

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E-government defines as “the use of all information and communication technologies, from fax machines to wireless palm pilots, to facilitate the daily administration of government…” The advantages of e-government are to help government saves millions of dollars annually by decreasing spending on printing, sorting, and mailing tax materials through offering taxpayers web access to tax return forms and publications. Hence, they also reduce travel and waiting time (from in-line to on-line), introduce a more efficient payment methods, improve transparency of government’s operation, improve poor governance and reduce systemic corruption, and eventually lead to transformation of governance.

In 1997, E-government initiative was launched to lead the country into the Information Age in Malaysia and initiated as a key factor in the national strategies to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the government operations, and improve the relationships between citizens and the state. The vision of Electronic Government is a vision for government, businesses and citizenry working together for the benefit of Malaysia and all of its citizens .

The 7 pilot projects of the Electronic Government Flagship Application are as follows;
Project Monitoring System (SPP II)
Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS)
Generic Office Environment (GOE)
Electronic Procurement (EP)
Electronic Services (E-Services)
Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX)
E-Syariah

As for citizen’s adoption strategies, Government adopted an e-Government Policy and Implementation Strategy to ensure access to information, active citizen participation, transparent administration and simplified access to government services by making e-government services available to citizens on a 24 hour basis to creating a conducive legal environment for transformation of most of government transactions electronically.

In addition, Government should concern about ease of use, compatibility, and trustworthiness as significant factors that affecting the citizens’ intention to use the e-services. Hence, the government should also concern with the accuracy, relevancy and completeness information that provided to the citizens as the successful to implement the E-Government in Malaysia.

Beside that, government should enhance the legislation on personal data protection, privacy, and security of the citizen’s private information to be protected. At the same time, it can help to provide e-citizen education; skills and training to every citizen are ready and able to adopt online government services.

Reference:

http://www1.american.edu/initeb/ym6974a/egovernment.htm
www.it-innovations.ae/iit005/proceedings/.../G_6_IIT05-Al-Adawi.pdf
http://www.egovnews.org/
www.doi.gov/e-government/DOI%20E-Government%20Strategy.pdf
http://www.itu.int/wsis/stocktaking/scripts/documents.asp?project=1124118918&lang=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-government
http://www.mscmalaysia.my/topic/12073046901815

Review : Shiptomyplace.com

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Review on local,transactional e-commerce site : SHIPTOMYPLACE.COM

Shiptomyplace.com is a lot like a neighborhood toner store in Malaysia which provides a great selection of high-quality laser toner, friendly service, and of course, everyday low prices. The goal is to bring customers the best toner shopping experience for toner on the Internet.

Products:

They offer wide range of compatible/remanufactured toners for brands:

Selling System:
Fixed price (good quality at lowest price)

Payment Channel:

Online credit card :

E- banking payment :

Services provided:

-Electronic catalog with detail information of the product.

-Electronic cart enables customers to purchase more than 1 product at a time

-Product map which provides a list of all products available and the code.

-Customer can subscribe to the mailing list for latest updates, news and promotion.

- Provides printing services for business card.

Conclusion:
This website makes users convenient in a sense of purchasing printing supply without stepping out of their house yet receiving what they want by the next day. The product and services provided is guarantee for good quality at the lowest price.