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One of Malaysia’s E-commerce sites that I found is http://www.bpfair.com/. This is a site which I fascinated on it. Some reviews been done for your reading.

E-catalogue – A list panel of various categories of items will found in left side. They are arranged according to different categories.

Search Engine – You know exactly what you item but lazy find through e-catalogue? Search engine can ease you burden. Just type in the item name, and result will come out in few seconds. Result can too be shown either in tiles, thumbnail, or list, according to your preference.

Top Sales – In the right side, there is a column for displaying the rank for top sales items. If you wish to be one of the fashions, you may refer to the top sales rank there.

Description – After clicking the item you like, you will able to see the details, description, and price of that particular item. You can also read the comment given by user or seller before buying it.

Bonus – Every item will have its own reward point. The more you purchase, the more points you collect. Points can be used to enjoy a discount up to 10%. (Click here)


Shopping Cart – For the items you like, you may just add them to the shopping cart. After done, all you need is just a click, and then all the transactions will complete at once.

Payment – User can do the payment through CIMB Bank, Maybank2u, Public Bank, or RHB Bank. These banks are the popular bank that most Malaysian familiar with.


Forum – This is a place where user or customer can leave down their message or question, and they will get reply as soon as possible.



Customer Service – Two floating windows will appear in left side when you scrolling down. For online service, you may access to it during working hours, through calling, MSN, or Skype. After working hours, you may access offline service by leaving message or call for it.


P.S: Logo and pictures being protected. For more details, please make yourself available at http://www.bpfair.com/

After discuss few topics with all of you, today I will like to share with all of you, what is corporate blogging. Corporate blogging is published and used by an organization to reach its organizational goals. It is used by a company to produce and support a blog to achieve business objectives and to be known with their services. Although there is few types of corporate blogging, but typically it is can be categorized as either external or internal blogs.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_blog
http://www.idynn.com/archives/05/corporate-blogging-secrets-revealed/
(paragraph 5)

1) Internal Blogs
~ Is a blog that can be view by every employee and is generally accessed through corporate intranet.
~ It encourage
- employees participation
- free discussion of issue
- collective intelligence
- direct communication between various layers of organization
- a sense of community

Further explanation:
http://www.brookgroup.com/Resources/Internet-Marketing/Corporate-Blogging.html (Internal Communication)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_blog
(Internal blogs)

2) External Blogs
- Is blog that is publicly available for company employees, teams, or spokespersons share their views.
- Also can be treated as public communication blog which it is used to communicate to prospects, clients, employees and the media. Press releases and project updates can be posted, as well as job opportunities or information that the company wants to distribute outside of the normal news channels.

To read more detail about external blogs, you can click the link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_blog
(External blogs)
http://www.brookgroup.com/Resources/Internet-Marketing/Corporate-Blogging.html
(Public Communication)

Typically there is some famous type of corporate blogs, which is:
1) Company Blog
2) CEO Blog
3) Industry Blog
4) Department or Product Blog
5) Customer Service Blog

For further explanation and also example for above those famous types of corporate blog, you can access to this link for some further reading:

http://mariosundar.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/the-5-types-of-corporate-blogs-with-examples/
(The 5 Types Of Corporate Blog – with example)

Why we have corporate blogging?????
1. Become the Expert
2. Customer Relationships
3. Media Relations
4. Internal Collaboration
5. Knowledge Management
6. Recruitment
7. Test Ideas or Products
8. Rank High in Search Engines

Explanation of about can be access through this link
http://www.corporateblogging.info/basics/why/
(Why blog for business)

There is some practices need to be account to make the corporate blog is being useful and benefits, which is:
- Fine print
- Know what you are doing
- Create blogging policies
- Avoid the marketing blog
- Keep it fresh
- Reinforce the company core value
- Encourage employees to use it

Explanation of the practices above can be found in:
http://www.brookgroup.com/Resources/Internet-Marketing/Corporate-Blogging.html
(Secrets of Corporate Blogging)

Top 15 sites of corporate blogging (Sept 2008)
1. Google
2. Adobe
3. Yahoo! Search
4. Facebook
5. Dell
6. Yahoo!
7. Linkedln
8. Southwest Airlines
9. General Motors (wound up)
10. Flickr
11. Mint
12. Marriott
13. Lenovo
14. Kodak
15. Delta








Link:
http://mariosundar.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/top-15-corporate-blogs-technorati-rankings-sep-08/

E-learning is a type of learning that used technology(software, application, computer) to support the learning process. The delivery mode of e-learning will be lack of face to face interaction due to the use of computer in conducting the learning. It usually will use by universities as a tool to offer their courses to student or it also used by an organization to provide training to their staff.

Nowadays, Universities in Malaysia become more attentive to this type of learning. In the old days, television, transperancy and projector is used as a teaching material. However, with the introduction of the excellent software and hardware, e-learning has been gradually accepted by the public and become a convenient tool in pursuing their studies.

Many universities in Malaysia start to offer this type of learning method as they not only can take in more student either locally or internationally but also have income to maintain their position in this competitve world. This usually will happen in the private universities as they do not need a huge campus to allocate their students. Due to the competition, more and more universities nowadays are providing e-learning in conducting their course.

Ther are several advantage of e-learning which are:

a) Foster the interaction among students and lecturers, normally a lecturer cannot pay attention to everyone of the student in a lecture class as it was too big and due to time constraint. Besides, some students may also shame to post question when they do not understand the lecture.Thus, by using e-learning, lecturer can deal with that student individually and students will also be more comfortable in asking question.

b)Self-paced learning, This mean that students actually can learn at the rate they prefer. In the case where a students is a slow learner, they can absorb the knowledge slowly whereas if this happen in traditional teaching method, the teaching pace would not be change just because you are a slow learner.

c)Reduce costs and time, Students can learn from anywhere without travelling to the universities as they can conducting the lesson from their home. This can save the travelling costs and time especially for the student who do not has enough budjet to further their studies in overseas.

d)Gain diversify knowledge, By using e-learning, we are able to learn different knowledge from different country. Thus, this can inspire the students to came out with creative or innovative ideas which it may be useful when they work for their organizations.

On the other hand, e-learning also has it disadvantage which are:

a) Reduce social and cultural interaction, The impersonality of e-learning will let the students feel they are being isolated because lack of face to face communication. Instruction will not always help the students to solve the problem they face during the studies, but somestimes they also needs realistic assistance from the lecturer which they can feel they are being attach by the lecturer.

b)Low motivation, Student must be highly motivated and responsible in doing their work since this is a self-paced learning. In such case, those student with low motivation will not be able to catch up the lesson and fall behind.

c)Access, since e-learning need an internet access, students sometime will feel frustated when the internet connection is slow or having a problem in accessing to a particular websites. Besides, they may facing a problem to deal with the complex learning application and difficulty in manage the computer files.

d) Practicability, Because the lesson is learn through internet, so it is impossible to conduct practical work such as experiments through internet. Sometimes, students may feel boring and do not have a better understanding of the subject they learn.

Again...everything in this world has two aspect!!Although the conduct of e-learning in universities seem like constituting benefit to the students but in my opinion, it also act as a tool to increase their income in this competitive world where many universities are starting using e-learning in conducting the courses. If any of them fall behind, they may not be able to sustain but being kick off from this realistic world. So, is it e-learning brings more benefit to the students or the universities? Let you be the one who determining it.

Journal about fulltime students' and working adults' perception of e-learning in Malaysia.

Reference:

1. http://cai.au.edu/concept/benefit.html

2. http://www.1stopbiztro.com/_mgxroot/page_10752.html