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

Have you been warned about sharing music online？Have you been received a legal letter for illegal downloading music and movie?
Its now very common for people to freely download video, music as well as the movie from the Internet, which sometimes seem like a file sharing centre. This piracy issue arise because people doesn’t have to pay anything for the downloaded multimedia information. According to the BBC news in UK, there is about 6 million people are said to illegally download file from the internet per year. This has caused the music and film companies lost millions of pounds in estimated. In order to solve this problem, there is some proposal that suggest internet service providers to take action over users who access pirated material via their accounts.
Youtube, one of the user most visited website for any video or music has been ask to hand over user info to Viacom (click for more infomation). This is actually a court order by the US Federak court.

Furthermore, the Allofmp3.com, which claimed to be second biggest seller of music downloads after iTunes have been closed down due to piracy issued. The fact is that the Viacom taking music that it had no right to reproduce and selling it worldwide.Therefore, the user who want to download freely from the internet should take note also to this rising issue-piracy.

Things to take note to prevent e-auction fraud when a consumer participating in an e-auction.

eBay is one of the famous e-auction websites in e-commerce world. However, even the eBay provides some program to protect consumer against the e-auction fraud there are still quite number of consumer being cheated by seller.

The following are the possible fraud that may be conducted by sellers:

1. Shilling
2. Fake photos and misleading descriptions
3. Improper grading techniques
4. Selling reproductions
5. High shipping costs and handling fees
6. Failure to ship merchandise

For more detail click here.

One of the protections is using Escrow Services :
An escrow service is a licensed and regulated company that collects, holds, and sends a buyer's money to a seller according to instructions agreed on by both the buyer and seller. Typically, once the buyer receives and approves the item from the seller within an agreed time frame, the escrow service then sends the payment to the seller.
Escrow is available for any purchase, but typically is used for purchases of $500 or more.

The escrow process :

1. Both parties (buyer and seller) agree to use/transact payment through www.escrow.com.
2. The buyer sends payment to www.escrow.com rather than directly to the seller.
3. www.escrow.com tracks the shipment of the item.
4. Once the buyer confirms receipt of the item, www.escrow.com will send payment to the seller to complete the transaction.

International escrow services approved by eBay :
www.eBay.au users: EscrowAustralia
www.eBay.it and www.eBay.es users: Escrow Europa
www.eBay.de users: iloxx Safe Trade
www,ebay.fr, www.ebay.nl and www.ebay.be users: Triple Deal

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Corporate Blogging: A new marketing communication tool for companies.

Enterprise blogs are blogs published by or with the support of an organization to reach that organization's goals. In external communications the potential benefits include strengthened relationships with important target groups and the positioning of the publishing organization (or individuals within it) as industry experts. Internally blogs are generally referred to as tools for collaboration and knowledge management.

There are six different kinds of internal and external enterprise blogs:

• Internal blogs – knowledge blogs, collaboration blogs, and culture blogs.
• External blogs – sales blogs, relationship blogs, and branding blogs.

For more detail, click here.

Advantages of Corporate Blogging:

• Leaders can communicate directly with customers, suppliers and investors, as well as employees, helping disseminate and explain strategy.
• Blogs give the writer an opportunity to answer critics in a controlled forum.
• Compared with conference or printed memos to all staff, enterprise blogs are highly cost effective.
• More advantages click here.
  

Disadvantages of Corporate Blogging:

• There have been dozens of cases of workers warned or fired because of something they wrote on a blog.
• It can be tricky to drag public comment out of a company without first routing through the sanitizing filter of a press office.
• Even if senior managers trust staff not to give away the company's commercial secrets - and many don't - there are still enough worries about libel and (for publicly listed companies) stock market disclosure rules to have the legal department waking in sweats for months to come.
• More disadvantages click here.
  
  
  

The top 10 corporate blogging trends : http://www.compendiumblogware.com/resources/eMarketing_Top_Trends.pdf
The Marketing Nirvana’s Top 10 Corporate Blog Rankings (Technorati Powered) : http://mariosundar.wordpress.com/2006/07/16/top-10-corporate-blogs-technorati-powered/

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E-government in Malaysia: Its implementation so far and citizen's adoption strtegies

E-Government refers to the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of government. The implementation of E-government started since the initiation of Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) by the Malaysian government. The progress and effectiveness of E-government applications are openly discussed by the IT society in Malaysia. Most of the E-government project implementations are currently in progress. For e.g.:

• Generic Office Environment(GOE). To introduce a fully integrated, distributed and scalable office environment the leverages use of multimedia information technology.


• Electronic Procurement(eP) Project. To re-engineer, automate, and transform current procurement system.


• Human Resource Management Information System(HRMIS). To perform human resource functions effectively and efficiently.


• Project Monitoring System(PMS). To monitor project implementation throughout various government agencies and statutory bodies.

Governments all over the world are developing information systems and electronic services that have the capacity to meet these emerging service needs and demands of citizens and other clients There are some studies have explored the factors that influence citizens’ adoption of e-Services:

• Carter and Bélanger, have tried to explore this gap and have investigated the effects of relative advantage, compatibility, ease of use and image with regards to the citizens intention to use e-Services. Their results show that perceived ease of use, compatibility, and trustworthiness are significant predictors of citizens’ intention to use e-Services .


• Wangpipatwong, Chutimaskul, and Papasratorn, have study the factors Influencing the adoption of Thai e-Government Websites and concludes that all explored characteristics of information quality significantly influence the adoption of e-Government websites. Accuracy, relevancy, and completeness were more significant than the others.


• Wangpipatwong, Chutimaskul, and Papasratorn explore which factors influence the adoption of E-Government websites regarding information quality and system quality aspects.

References:

1. http://www.intanbk.intan.my/psimr/articles/Article1%20-%20Full.pdf


2. http://www.pps.fsksm.utm.my/pars2007/pars/pars/before%20correct/information%20system%20management/26)salaheddin.pdf