Review: New rules for cyber cafes soon

Cyber cafes in Malaysia have been causing a lot of problems especially to the teenagers. It has raised concern by the public about this issue and government has announced that there will be some new guidelines to be enforced soon on Internet and cyber cafes in order to control these businesses. The guidelines that are been announced are:

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

The guidelines above are meant to solves the problems that caused by the people and teenager in cyber cafe. It has been reported that students are found to skip their class in school and stay in cyber café to play games with their friends. Most of their parent did not aware of their children daily act and thought their children were in school but actually not. Students also usually affected by their friends turn into a problematic teenager and cyber cafés are usually the hot spot for them to turn bad. Therefore, government and society are very concern about this issue.

Besides that, it has been found that teenagers surf on those pornography websites and gamble on the net in cyber café. They choose to do it in the cyber café because their parent is not around and they could do whatever they want. The main problem is that the management of the cyber café did not take any action and ignore them from those activities. If there is no action taking on this problem, we believe that it will get worst for the society as well as the next generation.


Furthermore, we could always see that people tends to smoke in cyber cafes, which is an indoor air-conditioner room. It will affect the health of those non-smokers by inhaling those second hand smokes. So, cigarettes and alcohol have to be prohibited from being sold.


Moreover, there has been a few case of fighting in cyber cafes due to several reasons like got insulted after losing a game from their opposition and the others. Hence, tinted glasses are banned to use for cyber cafes premises. It is because the situation inside the cafes must be able to see through from outside to prevent any fighting incident happen inside. It is happened because no one is watching towards them and prevents this incident to happen. Hence see through glasses is required so that people from outside is easy aware situation inside the cafes.

Hence, governments should implements those rules quickly and take serious action on this issue before it worsens. Public should work together with the governments to deal with this.

E-government: It implementation so far and citizen adoption strategy

Electronic Government (e-government) was launched to lead the country into the Information Age. It is defined as a way for governments to use the most innovative information and communication technology to enable the social and economic development.

The vision of e-government is a vision for government, businesses and public working together for the benefit of Malaysia and all of its citizens. The vision focuses on effectively and efficiently delivering services from the government to the people of Malaysia, enabling the government to become more responsive to the needs of its citizens.

The 7 pilot projects of the Electronic Government Flagship Application are as follows:

1. Project Monitoring System (SPP II)
2. Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS)
3. Generic Office Environment (GOE)
4. Electronic Procurement (EP)
5. Electronic Services (E-Services)
6. Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX)
7. E-Syariah

Hence, through the introducing of e-government application, citizen is allowed to adopt the e-government strategies in many ways. Government has to increase citizen’s confidence towards the government by enhancing several strategies on e-government.

Firstly, citizen is able to access to government information more easy and convenient by using e-government. In addition, the government website is providing some guidance to citizens who need assistance for government information search or to make online transactions. By using the e-government, citizens can pay government bills, pay for fined, pay for loan or even find out more government new policies.

Secondly, citizens can enjoy the online services for free which provided by the government. Thus, government personnel will need to capture the knowledge and practices gained from the citizens. This will ensure that the government has the capacity to maintain the online service delivery processes, and in the long run continue to get on improvement initiatives. In addition, public confidence in online service delivery will be a key factor in the success of e-government. Hence, data security and protection of individual privacy are becoming increasingly important for all the citizens by using the internet.

Furthermore, e-government has delivered all the government services to citizens. E-government has providing a single shared platform for the delivery of government information and services. Besides that, if there have any updated news about the government policy, citizens are able to find it out through the e-government. Hence e-government is providing added convenience to the public in the usage of government services. For an example, people who wish to apply loan from PTPTN, they can download the application form from the website. Hence, the officer will process the application. It is much faster than fill up the form and handling it by queuing.

Moreover, government is providind a portal for processing government information between citizens and businesses with government. Besides that, it also facilitate citizen participation in government, creating digital citizens in a digital democracy.

Finally, the implementation of any e-government initiative requires a focus on continuous improvement efforts. The usage and adherence to global benchmark practices are on the rise, but will need to become further embedded in many e-government projects.

Reference:

http://www.pmo.gov.my/ucapan/?m=p&p=paklahtpm&id=3332

Review a local, transactional e-commerce site

Today, i will like to introduce a well know bakery shop- Q JELLY BAKERY SHOP. Previously known as Homemade Jelly Cake. The 1st booth located in Sunway Pyramid in year 2000. The jelly cake was made by seaweed, low cholesterol and rich in vitamins and nutrients. The customer can order jelly cake online or drop by to their outlet.(http://www.qjelly.com/)

There are almost 1000 types of jelly cake that are available for the customer. All the design are cute, colourful and look tasty. The website separate their product into different categories: Disney Cartoon Character, Full Moon Package, Greeting Season, Kids&Novelty, Wedding, Zodiac and more.

If you are interested on their product, you just need to click on it and it will provide product description and the image. Some of the products may have promotion if you are the member. The website provide and facility. The instant buy is where you confirm of your choice and need to fill up your billing information and delivery methods. While the "Add To Chart" are suitable to the customer who cant make the decision because there are too many choice but cant pay for all. You can choose the jelly cake as many as you like, and later only decide which design is the perfect and suit for your needs.

The website also provide "F&Q" for the customer. Most of us will worry is the jelly cake colouring. The colours the use by the bakery shop are approved for use which regulated by The Food Drug Administration (FDA) in the United State. It also provide some tips on how to store the jelly cake. It also stated whether the jelly cake is Halal or not and the ingredients will list out to the customer. Therefore, for who suffers from any form of food allergy or vegetarian are advised by the company to read on the list before consume.

If the F&Q do not provide sufficient answer, you can contact them via outlet, phone enquire or email. If you wish to get some hot news from Q Jelly Bakery Shop, they have a features that the customers can subscribe their Newsletter. They will send the latest product to your mailbox.

So, with this convenience website, you can buy a jelly cake online for your lovely family or friends. Try out the cute, colourful and tasty jelly cake for birthday, anniversary and special occasion. Just make some different for the celebration.

A discussion on E-learning offered in Malaysian universities

Prons and Cons E-learning among students perspective


E-learning stand for electronic learning and it is determined by a delivery of training or education program through electronic. In the other words, e-learning is transfer of skills and knowledge and knowledge passed through the internet and network or standalone (independent) computer. The electronic device involved computer or electronic device such as mobile phone. For instance, Universities Malaya is one of the universities using e-learning which means a web-based learning management system with learning contents management capabilities.

This is exhibits:

1. This is the system which UM can be accessed via the following URL Addresses.
   For UM staff:
   http://elearning .um.edu.my/ Use UMMail Username and Password
2. For UM Students
   http://elearning .perdana.um.edu.my Use Perdana Mail Username and Password

In no particular order, there are certain pros on E-learning perspective among the students.

1. Electronic learning solutions improved collaboration and interactivity among students. Teaching and communications techniques create an interactive online environment such discussion group and email. Distance education encourage more critical because students enable study anywhere as long as there ability access into a computer with the network connection.


2. Besides that, e-learning provide flexibility to join discussion any hour of the whole day. Students can proceed their assignment or tutorial and they access learning materials at any time and as much as they need. This is known as “just in time and just enough”.
   
3. Another benefit of e-learning is the accessibility is provides. This is due to students can learn form anywhere and done from any place. Student enable complete their program at their own space and own place as well.


4. Furthermore, students can accommodate different learning styles through different activities. Students are not restriction use e-learning to complete their tasks but are encourage. Since the technology is get greater improvement and provide us convenience to interact and discussion among students and lecturer as well.

However, there are various negative ways to looking at the e-learning prospective among students.

• Students may get isolated from lecturer or classmate during discussion. This is due to students are not face to face with lecturer or classmate and get misunderstanding what they are discussion at the same time.


• In addition, lecturer may not always be available when students need their help to complete their tasks at anytime. Therefore, students force to make appointment or send by mail to inform the lecturer when they needed.


• Sometimes, students do not know well the computer files and online learning software. Hence, students are involved complex management of computer files and online learning software. This might waste the students “gold” time to submit their deadlines of the assignment.

The pros and cons of e-learning perspective alter depending on program goals and organizational infrastructure and culture. By the way, there is no argument that e-learning pros and cons since e-learning is rapidly growing as form of training delivery. Students should be imposed the e-learning at the right ways, right place and right time.

related link:

http://www.newman.ac.uk/Students_Websites/~m.m.friel/index.htm

http://ict.um.edu.my/abtelearning.html

Corporate Blogging: A new marketing communication tool for companies

Nowadays, corporate blogginged to its customers through internet. A corporate blog is available and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. The advantage of blogs is that posts and comments are easy to reach and follow due to centralized hosting and generally structured conversation threads. Although there are many different types of corporate blogs, most can be categorized as either external or internal. Please look further explain at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_blogia.org/wiki/Corporate_blog.

One of the most effective marketing strategies is “show it out, don‘t tell”. We can use corporate blog to demonstrate our industry expertise and experience by use commentary, guides, analysis and so on. Be remembering in your mind, the quality of your blog content same as the quality of your organization.

Blogging allows companies to advertise their product and services through online. Companies introduce their new development product and services in corporate blogging, make your product and services well known publicly. Giving customer a channel to interact and get know of the product and services in a form that they are familiar and comfortable with.

Besides that, corporate blogging is to establish two way conversations between customers and customers or customers and businesses. Customers can learn more about the comment’s of company’s quality of product and services from other customers. On the other hand, company will also get the feedback from customers. This is the one way company can improve their marketing strategy.

Companies communicate with their customers in a more personal and direct way when using corporate blogging. Blogging become more and more essential communication between and customers. If customers have any inquiry about the product and services, they can deal directly with companies by using blogging.

Corporate blog examples

Jonathan’s Blog - The blog of Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems. Although John is the CEO of a USD$15 billion company, he blogs just like a regular guy.

The Official Google Blog - My favourite corporate blog, the Google blog gives you a peek into the internet giant’s products, technology and culture and frequently features managers and engineers blogging about the projects they work on.

English Cut - Thomas Mahon isn’t nearly as big as Sun or Google, but his blog has made him a very successful small business. He tailors Prince Charles’ suits!

Blue Flavor Blog - Blue Flavor is another successful small business that effectively employs a thought leadership strategy in their blog.

Seth’s Blog - Best-selling author Seth Godin’s blog is another example of a blog employing a thought leadership strategy and reinforces Seth’s reputation as a writer, speaker and consultant.

Kid Chan Studio Blog - A good example of a corporate blog from a Malaysian company.

Exabytes Blog - Another Malaysian blog, the Exabytes Blog does a good job of humanising a ‘virtual’ company and notifying readers of special offers.

In summary, corporate blogs are a new, powerful marketing communications tool for any organization. For example, small or large, profit or non profit organization can use corporate blogging as their marketing communication tool. If company done blogging successfully, maybe help companies gain greater profit.

Beginners Guide to Corporate Blogging (For your information)

http://www.corporateblogging.info/basics/corporatebloggingprimer.pdf

Related link

http://www.starnine.com/blog-marketing/