E-commerce Change the World

There are many outstanding e-commerce website available in Malaysia market. Today I want to share with the readers on one of the successful e-commerce website that I have dealing with, myeho.com. It is an online travel agency which make available for travellers to book a hotel, choosing a travel package, and entrust a group trip. Their group trip customers include Ernst & Young, ING Insurance, Nike Malaysia and other successful companies.

Nowadays, Malaysia travelling industry has grown vigorously. According to the statistics on Ministry of Tourism, foreign visitors have increased in year 2008 by 5.1%. In order to grab a slice on this market, many travelling agency goes beyond their traditional brick-and-mortar business to setup their online travelling service website.

It is a real story that happened on me. Recently, my Indonesian relatives come to Malaysia for travelling but they do not have any plan and suddenly come to my house and discussing their travelling plan. On that situation, I really do not have an idea to plan a trip for them and really don’t like to travel all the way from Sungai Long to KL area for searching travel agency.

So, one of my friends introduced me a reliable online travel agency called myeho.com. This website is focusing on travel to the famous islands around Malaysia and Thailand. Besides, myeho.com’s homepage is well-organised that allowed users to see their package in the order way. Moreover, the website travelling package gives a special rate with even cheaper than other agencies.

Here I also want to highlight a most powerful tool in the websites is called search engine. It permits users to drop down the option even though the users do not have knowledge on geographic of Malaysia. Other than that, some other user friendly features like peak seasons calendar and currency converter give a clearer picture on pricing and hot seasons to foreign visitors on doing decision.

On the other hand, users can make the payment through most of the online-banking website and other foreign payment method such as China Unionpay. The company will first send user an invoice in PDF format through e-mail and user can make their payment with reference code on the website.

Once users complete the payment, Myeho.com will send back the payment voucher to user as a reference.
The only one limitation in the website I found is that the online payment by credit/debit card is not very secure with third party verification. So at that time, I rather to chose bank transfer to the company for making my payment.

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However, it is not only Malaysian who downloads from the Internet. Internet user from all around the world would download songs, videos, movies and other digital files from the Internet. This illegal action will have many negative impacts to many parties.

In my opinion, the party that will most affected by this illegal download would be the artists, songwriters, producers and so on. This is because it betrays songwriters and producers who have produced it. Since many Internet users illegally download copyrighted products, therefore music and movie industry will be affected. Many Internet users just download their favourite song or movies for free therefore they do not need to purchase it. By doing so, the cost of producing song or movies cannot be recovered because revenue is low.

Besides that, it also indirectly will affect us as fan of some singers or artists. This is because when the cost cannot be covered, then they will not able or even stop producing song and movies. Hence, we will not able to enjoy those beautiful art.

Lastly, I would advice Internet users to not to be selfish and ruin the whole industry. We should not be the "Pirates of the Industry" !!!

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Hi everyone today is my last blog for this education blog. I hope our blog has brought lot of useful information to you guys. Well, today I’m going to share the title about “The implementation of E-Government in Malaysian and the citizen’s adoption strategies”.

Electronic government (E-Government) is the use of IT and e-commerce to provide access to government information and delivery of public services to citizens and business partners. The initiative launched of E-government was to lead the country into Information Age. By implementing E-Government, the internal operation of government and delivery services to the citizen in Malaysia will be improved. Besides, it also will improve the convenience, accessibility, quality of the interactions with citizen and business and so forth.

Malaysian government has implemented e-government services since the initiation of Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) in 1996. Their vision is to focus on the efficiency and effectiveness of delivering the government service to their citizen by enabling them to be more responsive on citizen needs.

The 7 pilot projects of the ElectronicGovernment Flagship Application are:

Government to Government
1. Project Monitoring System (SPP II)
-Online system that monitors the entire lifecycle of national programs,

2. Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS)
-Enable the Public Service to successfully deal with the Challenges of the K-Economy.

3. Generic Office Environment (GOE)
-Powerful document and office management solution that enables users to effectively and efficiently manage their office environment.

Government to Business
4. Electronic Procurement (EP)
-Enables suppliers to sell goods and services to the Government through the Internet.

Government to Citizen
5. Electronic Services (E-Services)
- Citizen can conduct transaction with government agencies through various convenience channels such as the eServices kiosks and internet.

6. Electronic Labour Exchange (ELX)
-Enable employers and job seekers to communicate on the same platform to exchange labor market information.

7. E-Syariah
-A case management system that integrates the processes related to management of cases for the Syariah Courts.

Furthermore, the following links will be helpful for you to know more detail about the implementation of E-Government in Malaysia.
i) Malaysian Information and Communication Technology

ii) E-Government in Malaysia

iii) Implementation of Electronic Government in Malaysia

Moreover, Malaysian government can carry out few strategies in order to increase the number of E-government users. Those strategies are as follow:
-Government should provide multiple languages in their websites.
-Government should provide a user-friendly system to their citizen such as simplify their system procedures.
- FAQ and contact number for customer services should be included in their websites.
-Conference, talk or campaign should be organized by the government by explaining services provided by them and describing the way to use the system.
-Government should enhance the security of their websites and state the rules and regulations of the system to avoid the exposure of citizen’s private information.

Before i end my post with you guys, I would like to share a video about E-Government service in oversea which showing the convenience provided by the government to their citizen.

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Hi there, we meet again to discuss on the popular issues of e-commerce. We will discuss on the new marketing communication tool for companies today- Corporate Blogging. According to Wikipedia, corporate weblog is a tool that organizations used and published to reach its organizational goals. It has grown from a popular teen pastime to needs for corporations. Most of the blogs can be categorized as internal and external blogs. Internal blogs are generally accessed through the intranet where every employee can view on it whereas external blogs are publicly published for everyone where they can see the employees, teams or spokespersons of the company sharing their views on the blog.

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What is a pre-paid cash card? Is it a credit card or a debit card? Are you confused now? Never mind. I'll explain what is a prepaid cash card actually in this post.

The are two other companies that provide prepaid cash card. If you are interested, do visit the following companies' websites:

i) AccountNow ii) ThinkGlink

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For more in-depth details, please visit the web sites below:
http://www.debtfirms.com/credit-card-debt.html
http://www.3debtconsolidation.com/creditcardmistakes.html

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Hi, my dearest readers. Today I’m going to share some information regarding the electronic currency with you guys. Yet, before I provide the detail information about it, let me take this opportunity to share some basic knowledge first. As we know, the improvement of technology and internet has driven the use of electronic currency in the world. Besides, it also plays a major role in most of the transactions which perform or done through the internet. Thus, it is important to know about what is electronic currency as well as their pros and cons.

Now, let me ask you a question. What is the electronic currency? Isn’t something like traditional money that can be seen and touch? The answer definitely is NOT! In fact, electronic currency is an intangible money that cannot touch and it is money or scrip that just can be exchanged electronically.Thus, it is safe for us to use the electronic currency, we do not need to worry that the money will be lost. E-money, electronic cash, electronic currency, digital money, digital cash or digital currency is another term of electronic currency.

Electronic currency to be used for payment over the internet is stored electronically on receipt of funds. Moreover, it can be held on devices, cards or on a server, for examples pre-paid cards, electronic purses and etc. In order to exchange electronic currency over the internet, three systems should be involved which are computer networks, internet and digital store value system.

The examples of electronic currency are Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) and direct deposit. EFT is used to perform financial transaction electronically by using computer-based systems while direct deposit is used to transfer money by using certain system.




There are many companies that provide electronic currency in the world. One of the companies using this currency is PayPal. PayPal is an e-commerce business which allows payments and money transfers to be made through internet. Besides, a PayPal account can be deposited from bank account through electronic debit or by credit card.

Click and buy is also another company that provides electronic currency. It allows customers made payment through the internet without ever providing their personal bank or card details again. This system is currently used by Skype, Msn, T-online, Playboy, Electronic Arts and etc.


However, there are pros and cons using this electronic currency. One of the major benefits is security, by using electronic currency you do not need to worry about the exposure of your private information to stranger. You can made payment through internet without giving any private information.

Second benefit is lower cost transaction. Unlike other business which may eat up an unreasonably fees from your profit, electronic currency trading allows you to earn more from your business which require minimal fees only. Another benefit is globalization, which allows you to assess into global market with no restriction and control from local currency.

One of the limitations is failure of technology. Breakdown of network, defected by worm or virus and etc will cause the data and record to be disclosed to outsiders which may become the barrier of using electronic currency. On the other hand, additional hardware is required by the company in order to perform this electronic currency software and the installation cost is quite costly. Thus, cost of implementation can be considered as a big issue for the company.

If you want to know more about the electronic currency, please do not hesitate to visit the following links which might be useful for you.

i) Electronic Currency
ii) Electronic Currency Trading
iii)Benefits of Electronic Currency Trading

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