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2:51 AM

Review on Lelong.com

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Lelong! Lelong!! Lelong!!! We, Malaysian would normally heard this word very frequently in the market especially in our night market or pasar malam.

Typical Pasar Malam in Malaysia

"Lelong" is a Malay word which means auction in English. Undoubtedly, in Malaysia the most famous bidding or auction site is www.lelong.com.my. The concept of Lelong is almost same as the more famous American bidding site eBay. But!! There is a but..

Lelong's home page is a lot more messy and constantly full of minor or distracting advertisements at the left or right side of the page.

Am i looking at the thing i searched or the ads???

In eBay, when u search for sport cars. They really show you sport cars like Chevrolet Camaro, Infiniti G35, Mercedes S class and many more.

But in Lelong, they show you rubbish like arm rest, watches, and TOY CARS.

Is Myvi a sport car?

I afraid that when i search for KFC, they will show me something like:


"Kame"(came) From China-KFC

In Lelong, the safety and interest of both the buyer and seller are protected. Why i said so?

First, there is a rating system for sellers. The seller can only gain points to increase its own rating from the buyer who bought goods from them. In the other way, the seller's rating will drop if he is dishonest with its sales. So, if we as a buyer want to determine the trustworthy of the seller, we can always refer to its ratings. The higher the rating means the seller is trustable. Of corse, it is not always seller will cheat the buyer. It will happen the other way as well. To prevent this from happen, all the users including buyer and seller required to register a account. To register the account, important details like name, telephone number, id number are required. This is to ease the investigation to fraud sales or any conn case.

And lastly, there is also a brilliant system in Lelong. It is called the Safe Trade. This system is to eliminate every risks between the seller and buyer. In this system, when a buyer and seller agree to their trade terms, the buyer will pay to this Safe Trade. Then, Lelong will infrom the seller to ship goods and when the buyer receive its goods and approve the payment. Then, the seller will get its money from Lelong Safetrade. However, there is surcharge of 2 ringgit per transactions to be bear by the buyer.


Lelong's Safe Trade

Will i buy stuff through Lelong or any other bidding sites? Is the stuff offered there cheaper? Is there more variety of stuff available there?

I can answer you that i rather drive myself to the nearest mall to opt for the stuff i want. This is because i don't trust online selling yet. Online sellers seem like want to make a large fortune by marking up the prices of their goods. Besides, i would only pay for the stuff which i have seen with my own eyes and touched with my own hands.

Therefore, shopping mall still is my choice and Lelong is a place merely for me to waste my time.

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10:36 PM

E-Government In Malaysia

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The implementation of electronic government started since the initiation of Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) by the Malaysian government. The purpose of implementing this e-government is to lead the country into the Information Age. It is a vision for government, businesses and citizen working together for the benefit of Malaysia and its entire citizen. It focuses on effectively and efficiently delivering services from the government to the people of Malaysia, enabling the government become more responsive to the need of its citizen.



E-government is one of the seven flagship application introduced in MSC. Under the e-government flagship, there are seven main project were indentified to be the core of the e-government applications. The seven pilot projects are Project Monitoring System(PMS), Human Resource Management Information System(HRMIS), Generic Office Environment(GOE), Electronic Procurement(EP), Electronic Services(E-services), Electronic Labor Exchange(ELX) and E-Syariah. Most of the e-government project implementations are currently in progress.



The recent survey about e-government adoption in Malaysia, which was done by market information group TNS, indicated that the e-government use is growing but at a slow pace. Generally, new technologies force government to be more sensitive with time. This is because technologies evolve very quickly and thing become out of date very fast. In order to make the right decision and avoid falling behind, government must indentify and resolve the different issues that have risen from the transaction period during which traditional and e-government co-exist. Government should guide and manage the conversion of government into e-government rather than just focusing on introduction of ICTs. The use of ICT to gather the participation of citizens and businesses in public decision must be progress at the same time.


Simultaneously, e-government adoption also affected by website design elements that provide perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness, by user characteristic such as sense of perceived risk, feeling of perceived control and prior internet experience, and also by citizen satisfaction with the quality of its services. The government should be able to propose an effective strategy to encourage citizen’s adoption of e-government by focusing on customer satisfaction, service quality, website design and user characteristic.

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10:33 PM

E-Learning

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Today, E- Learning industry is diverse. Numerous universities have developed profit oriented E-Universities offering courses and degree programs. E-Learning involves the use of Web-based technologies to deliver a broad range of learning solution whereby learning materials can be easily accessed from the web. Students can communicate among each others using e-mail, chat, or discussion forum. E- Learning has provided lots of advantages and disadvantages as follow:


Pros

E- Learning offers economies of scale. Technology-based solutions tend to be more scalable than traditional teaching methods. Besides that, E- Learning also provides conveniences and time flexibility. Students can easily access to the Internet to get online resources or other materials anytime and anywhere whenever they can access to the Internet. E-learning has becoming vast popular among students living in developing and non-developing countries. They can afford to get higher education degrees by saving extra expenses for traveling, living accommodation, foods and others fees.


Cons

On the other hand, there are also some disadvantages in using E-learning.


One of the disadvantages is lack of face to face communication with tutors will lead to misunderstanding among tutors and students. This will significantly affects students with low ability especially when they find difficulties in using the new technology and online software.


Also, students will feel isolated and left behind than other students. Further more, it takes more time for tutors to provide individualized feedback especially when they encounter Internet connections problems. As comparing to the traditional methods, tutors can easily understand the students’ needs meanwhile the students also can inquiry if they face any problem immediately.


There are many advantages in using E-Learning programs meanwhile there are varieties of disadvantages too. We should always consider the easiest way to study. Students that find it difficult in using E-Learning programs might stick to the traditional method and vice visa.

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10:19 PM

Corporate Blogging

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Strategic communications through corporate blog can help in achieving the organizational objectives and goals. Corporation needs communication tools for sharing or exchanging of information related to the company. Corporate blog is one of the communication tools that the corporate can use to communicate with the customers and other external groups. It also used for collaboration and knowledge management within the corporate.


Although personal blogs have been around for about eight years, corporate blogging is still relatively new. Corporate blogs serve as vehicles to transmit messages such as promoting products and services. It is usually written in a conversational style which can provide much useful information. This can help the management to improve own organizational efficiency by disclosing company announcements, change of direction, and other important information.


Corporate blogging allow the leaders communicate directly with customers, suppliers, and employees. The blog allows the users share their ideas freely in an honest voice which increase customer trust and also organizational efficiency. Besides, corporate blogging are highly cost effective as compared to printed memos or leaflet. Corporate blogging is able to read without printed out on hardcopy. If the blog has a positive effect on corporation’s reputation, then it is very beneficial the corporate in terms of profit making.

Yea right!!! Alternative of cheap advertisement

On the other hand, not everyone is interested in corporate blogging. Corporate blogging has a problem which is blogs are easy to start but they are hard to maintain as they are difficult and time-consuming in writing or posting. If the blogs have not updated, then the organization is damaging rather than enhancing its reputation.

In order to maintain a competitive edge, corporations are increasingly looking for opportunities to make them stand out. The corporation should make sure that the corporate blog is interesting and informative as here is no body wants to read a boring blog. As the corporate blog is a representation of the company’s values, beliefs, philosophy and directions, thus the corporation should maintain its blog to build brand awareness and loyalty.

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