The persons that have impact the most by using the E-learning are the students. Hence, below are the pros and cons of E-learning from the students perspective.




Convenience
Students do not need to travel to the campus to attend the class personally. By having the Internet access, they can download all the online education resources from the Internet. Besides, if they find difficulties on study, they can just drop an email to the lecturer. It is easy and convenient.


Capability to study at own pace
In traditional education setting, students always need to submit the assignments in a particular period of time in order to meet the set deadline. However, through E-learning, students can study whenever they are free. The online faculty will assign projects with a deadline and students can finish their projects at whatever time that they find feasible within that particular deadline.

Lack of face to face communication with the lecturer
Students find it difficult to understand the course well without the face to face communication with the lecturer. The lecturer may not understand the students' demands, interests and behaviors. Moreover, miscommunication can also be occured by using the email between the lecturer and the students. As a result, the learning progress of the students has been obstructed.

Lack of motivation
Students need to study and do their assignments by their own. They will not get any guidance from the lecturer easily when they are facing problems in their studies. They have to do all the work under unsupervision. Hence, the students will become lazy and have no motivation to study hard.


E-learning brings a lot of benefits for the students. However, there are some drawbacks that can limit the student's learning progress. Therefore, those limitations need to be solved in order to get better outcomes form E-learning.




~For more information, please visit to the following websites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_learning
http://www.kst.utm.my/kst/download/eLearning%20Implementation%20in%20Malaysian%20Universities_the%20UTM%20Experience.pdf

Corporate blogging is a great marketing tool. It is an investment that may produce a measurable return to the company which is same as other marketing initiatives. One of the advantages of blogs is that post and comments are easy to reach and follow due to the centralized hosting and generally structured conversation threads. So, it can create and maintain a conversation with the customers and stakeholders and build thought leadership.

The three successful corporate blogging are as follows:

GK from Elite Sportswear

In 2008, GK fro Elite Sportswear which is a manufacturer of gymnastics apparel around the world began to turn to business blogging as a means of increasing organic search traffic and converting more business. The 30 blogs launched by GK Elite had increased its revenue from organic search by 39 percent, and also increased 30 percent for the net online revenue as a result of the blogs.

Roto-Rooter

Roto-Rooter is the largest provider of plumbing and drain services in North America. In a competitive environment, the company’s blogs has humanized the company in the eyes of consumers. Rota-Rooter blogging about the way its plumbing service professionals double as superheroes to rescue family pets, needy animals and prized personal possessions for customers. These blogs give Roto-Rooter a true personality and give confidence to the customer for the company’s professional services.

HH Gregg

HH Gregg is one of the nation’s leading retailers of home appliances and consumer electronic with more than 111 stores. HH Gregg has established several hundred blogs that focused on its product and also community involvement when notice that much of its products are researched online before customer ever go to the store for purchase it.

All of these examples represent great corporate blogs because they were initiated with specific goals in mind. These organizations have all looked to leverage social media to help building their business in ways that are both human and mutually beneficial to both their clients and their companies.

~For more information, please visit the following websites:

Corporate blog

Corporate blogs list

15 companies that really get corporate blogging

**Assist strengthening government’s drive toward effective governance.

**Enhance access to and delivery of government services to benefit of citizens.

Malaysia E-Government successful applications...

• Adoption of Government Open Source Projects
• E-Syariah
• Voter information
• E-Procurement
• Employment opportunities
• Details for government tenders
• Online renewal of driving licenses
• SMS alert on E-government services
• Electronic filing (E-filing) of income tax forms
• Government’s drive for E-government services
• Electronic Labour Exchange has matched 75,000 potential employees with employers since 2005.

Malaysia E-Government implementations so far...
The implementation of E-government requires strong leadership and vision. It also requires a comprehensive strategy that is not only benchmarked on global best practices, but also sensitive to existing political realities and economic conditions.

Advantages of E-Government...

**Reduce costs: E-Government allows harvesting of data from different systems and different areas.

**Good quality: E-Government increases the quality of feedback to managers and policy makers.

**Well management: E-Government reinforces traditional bureaucratic structures, cultures, and links from administration to citizens and politics.

Problems faced in E-Government implementation in Malaysia...

**Language barriers: Some of the government websites use only Bahasa Malaysia version. So, government should design the multi language websites to citizens.

**Take slow action: Some complaints have not been responded quickly due to without any action from concerned specific authorities.

**IT infrastructure: Shortage of reliable networks and communication. It is very hard to redesign the websites due to the high complexity in understanding the process and systems.

**Operational costs: The cost of IT professionals and consultancies is high in developing countries.

Citizen’s adoption strategies...

In Malaysia, E-Government adoption requires citizens to show their high levels of satisfaction and security with the online services provided by the government.

The E-Government websites should provide:

**Best services: The problem solving is effective and efficient enough to reply to citizens such as E-complaint portal.

**Convenience: Save time to make the payment such as renew driving license online.

**Confidentiality: The information of citizens is protected.

**Cost saving: The E-transaction cut-off paper work and makes it easy to use.

**Friendly user websites: The websites is provided by multi language version.


In conclusion, E-government in Malaysia have improved our understanding of what works and what does not, what practices are transferable, and under what conditions.

~For more information, please refer to following websites

• Internal users' self-assessment of Malaysia's E-Government
• E-Government in Malaysia
• An example of implementation of E-Procurement

INFORMATION SHARING
Malaysia was ranked 157 out of 198 countries in 2005. In recent, the ranking leapfrogs to top 11!!! This proved that Malaysian government put efforts in promoting their E-Government services.

E-GOVERNMENT DATA EXCHANGE



Reference: http://www.egov-coe.com/

Hello passengers, we are in Malaysia Airline now~! We will fly you to the Malaysian Airline Company & find out what are the E-Commerce services offered by the company in malaysiaairlines.com!!!

Malaysia Airline System Bhd (MAS) is a local company that provides flight services to its customers through online. The high quality of online ticket booking services assisted the company to gain competitive advantage from its competitors.

MAS offered its Free & Easy Packages to customers and allow them to book the tickets through online. This E-Commerce strategy is able to attract more customers to use the services offered by MAS.



Destiinations Available on Free & Easy Packages:

What are the Potential Impacts from E-Commerce provided by MAS?

Trust, loyalty, & satisfaction of customers increased

Reputations of MAS enhanced

Long-term competitive advantage of MAS developed

Enhance public confidence


Conclusion:

E-Commerce is useful to the company who trades goods & services to customers through electronic online. The implementation of an E-Commerce site from Malaysian Airlines Bhd not only can create benefits for both company & consumers, but it also able to assist the company to sustain long-term achievement.


Related Website Links:

Malaysia Airlines

Selamat Datang > Welcome to Malaysia Airlines

Malaysia Airlines - Free & Easy Packages

After reviewing the evolution of E-Commerce from My E-Commerce blog, I found that online retailing in UK is growing at its fastest rate after the dotcom started to grow up. From the research, the amount of money spent by consumers in shopping online has increased by 33.4% to £10.9 billion in year 2007.

Why online retailing or e-retailing has become so famous?

These are the reasons:

Convenience

Saves time

Avoids crowds

Allow more time to research

Lower prices

No salesperson involved

Product customization

Better information

Can shopping anytime, anywhere

There are several models for e-retailing which are specialized e-store, generalized e-store, E-mall, direct selling by the manufacturer, supplementary distribution channel, E-broker and E-services.

The e-retail players are from all over the world such as Amazon.com, Buy.com, eBay, Dell, GenericWear.com, REI.com and myCloset.com. They are popular retailers that have developed e-commerce sites specifically to serve markets.

The rapid growth of electronic retailing brings a lot of benefits for the consumers. However, there may have frauds committed by sellers:

Receiving payment and not shipping merchandise

Shipping items other than those described

Giving a deliberately misleading description

Selling counterfeit or bootleg merchandise

Selling stolen goods

Misrepresenting the cost of shipping

As the customers, we need to ensure the transactions are dealt with the legal company. This can avoid the fraud of e-retailing.

~For more information, please visit the following websites:

Online retailing 'surging ahead'

E-retailing benefits both consumers and marketers