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

I am reviewing the post “UK to get tough with illegal downloader” in http://ecommerze.blogspot.com/search/label/Legal. We know that many things can be downloaded through Internet, either legally or illegally, such as movies, songs, articles, pictures, and so on.

Even thought we all know that illegally downloading will make a lot of losses for the original producers, and it is unethical action, there is an argument about the original sources are much more expensive. Well, that is one of many excuses from downloaders.

Today, we don’t have a law specifically against the downloaders as there is less or even no downloading before. Yet, law been built is to be fairness, and protect human being. There is no free lunch in reality; we must pay before we get anything. Internet is the virtual world that we can perform many things, but not everything is right.

Does the new law bring effect to the world? We may not know. It may reduce number of downloaders, less illegal downloading, less pirated material. Who are willing to take risk in producing those materials if nobody needs pirated material? Even the new law works, there still have the problem. It may not be eliminated as there are many ways to cover up the crime.

Well, if there is your favourite movie or favourite song, are you willing to pay for original producers to let them earn more and produce more? Or you rather to pay for pirate providers, let them earn your money but they just copy from producers?

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

The Electronic Government initiative in Malaysia was launched to lead the country into the Information Age. It has improved both how the government operates internally as well as how it delivers services to the people of Malaysia. It seeks to improve the convenience, accessibility and quality of interactions with citizens and businesses; simultaneously, it will improve information flows and processes within government to improve the speed and quality of policy development, coordination and enforcement.

Current applications of e-Government in Malaysia such as
1. e-Filling- Renewing Road Tax
2. Driving License online,
3. KWSP’s i-Akaun
4 .E-Perolehan

Common problems encountered by consumers

1. Security and privacy – consumer maybe worry about their private personal data and the tax return can see by others.


2. Credibility – how accuracy of the e filing system and how to ensure that the system will not make the mistake?

3.Technological knowledge – some of the people maybe don’t have the technological knowledge. So they maybe don’t how to use the e government application via internet.

Suggest ways to encourage more citizens to use the e-government applications

1. Improve the security and privacy application - make sure the data will not hack by the hacker.

2. Organize some activities to introduce the e government application and teach the citizen how to use the e government application.

Corporate Blogging: A new marketing communication tool for companies.

A corporate blog is not new to the corporate world anymore. Most of the companies publish and use the blogs either external or internal. An internal blog, usually publish in the intranet of the organization that it can be viewed by any employees, whereas, the external blogs is a publicly weblog where others can share their views.

For a large organization and even small companies, blog is a good communication vehicle. This is because it is impossible to share the information of the company with each and every employee. Besides, the companies use the blog to provide the information for consumers such as the directions on how to use the products.

Lat Long Blog, a blog which cover Google Earth, Google Maps, Local and Google APIs is launched by Google. It will discuss efforts by Google to map the “geoweb”.

Blog can be the best way for sharing the information and knowledge with the companies. Furthermore, the consumer can be easily to inform when there is new product and it is also the way to get the feedback from the consumer.

Blog also has its disadvantages too. Blog is easy to start but it is difficult to maintain. The company must always update their blogs, updating the blogs may sometimes need more time. Whether external or internal blogs, some of the employers will worry about the security which may cause the loss of the company confidentiality.

Review a local e-commerce site

Blooming Florist is establish since year 1995.The Company is provide online shopping services which name http://www.blooming.com.my/. Besides that, it has open a branch at mid valley recently.

Blooming Florist has selling many types of product such as:

1.Dolls
2.Flowers
3.Cookies
4.Fruits basket
5.Wines
6.Belgium Chocolate
7.Selwin Pewter Clock
8.Home Decoration
9.Hampers
10.Disney Toys

The website also presents the layout of the product and the prices of each category of the products. You can select which product you want to buy and then click the buy button then the website will transfer the product to the shopping cart.

After that, when you already finish shopping, you can switch to the shopping cart and check out the products that you are selected. Before you make payment, you should fill in some details.

1.Delivery Period: Select the date of delivery
2.Gift card message: Writing some wishes or message in the card message
3.Recipient: Fill in the personal particular form
4.Billing information: Fill in the delivery information
5.Order review: Check the price of the products and confirm it
6.Payment Option: Select type of payment

Finally, you can collect a receipt which will send to your e-mail and this is the evidence to prove that you are paid for the items.