 of a business for Internet marketing issues and advertising purposes, and be aware of potential pitfall areas for revealing of intellectual property and trade secrets through information and articles published online. All items published online are likely to become public knowledge very quickly. For that reason alone, think carefully before hitting the publish button.
Email correspondence should be private and confidential, and should remain that way unless permission is given to publish something online. While certain individuals might not see any harm quoting something from an email received, and publishing it on the Web, it is always advisable to get a person’s consent prior to publishing anything online. While the person might wish to give consent to the request, they however might not realize the full implications of what happens to online privacy when the quote is attributed to the person that made the statement. Unforeseen issues can certainly arise, or impact a person’s brand image directly or indirectly through other comments or the text being picked up in the search engine results and then copied by others. Therefore, it would be wise to consider the request for a quote very carefully before even asking for the person’s approval. Additionally, consider using only the first name and last name initial, or even their initials only. This way, their name is not directly linked to a comment online.
Business and Ebusiness ethical issues and B2B versus B2C.
What are the regulatory issues for a B2B site?
What are the regulatory issues for a B2C website?
Meta search engine robots topic.
The e-business regulatory issues with B2B and B2C in the USA, compared to AU. and other nations.
Email marketing laws in the United States.
Email regulations in the UK.
Email marketing opt-in vs. opt-out, vs. double opt-in.
This is one to watch out for closely! Beware of phone “survey” scams, “Charity” Appeals for chain mail, send money, online security, and spam.
Another area that can be a real pain for everyone on a computer is “The Never-Ending Hoax Viruses“. See: http://www.sans.org/rr for other articles related to consumer security.
Copyright Infringement. Watch out for this particular crime of sites that copy your website text (legal issues) or name while trying to pawn off some other item they are selling (as though you are endorsing it – NOT). See: copyright law, reference: Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Redirects to other pages with completely different information than what was shown in the search results.
Unethical spyware and adware companies are promoting themselves as: “get to the top of Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Bing Search guaranteed for your keywords.” These companies are using the term “Search Engine Data Merging.” Spyware and adware is installed on some users computers then they sell keywords to professionals for thousands of dollars a year. This is a huge money making scam.
The company has used various names: Search Elevators, Link Positions, Window Billboards Network, Winspeed Network, Real Positions Network, Keywords Guru, and even a search engine labeled RedZee Search. Read more: Advertising Scam – Search Engine Data Merging.
Other unethical schemes have duped a certain public segment (especially when economic times are difficult), national business owners, local small business owners, and professional services people get caught up in all types of sales pitches, to go around sound sales, marketing, and advertising principles of getting their website found online, and try promised shortcuts that simply don’t produce. The outcome of this is that owners are out of pocket a ton of money, and nothing to show for it.
Identity theft is a major problem of which I have personal experience with. That’s a different story and continues on. Beware, that this issue is related to online B2C ethical business issues and legal issues. For help see: Federal Trade Commission – Your National Resource for ID Theft plus the Better Business Bureau, BBB.
More information on B2B legal, ethics, regulatory b2c ethical, Internet Businesses e-commerce legal issues articles and help can be found at the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, which has information about the various topics as well as filing a complaint. Intellectual property, Patents, Trademarks, Policy and Law Reports, & additional reference material can be found at United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Domain name registration is another area online where ethics have been thrown out. Certainly there are some gray areas for someone to be registering a domain name that is close to some other corporate identity’s name. But, many of these individuals and corporations that register domain names in the same country and other countries that are near to, or similar to the spellings of others, are registering the names to infringe upon the trademarks and brands of other corporations and organizations.
Briefly, I’d like to point out that use of a name can be legal for many parties whether they have a trademark or not. Two or more parties may have the same trademark in different jurisdictions, may have the same trademark in the same jurisdiction but in different industries, or may legally use a name without owning a trademark to it. It is not necessary to own a trademark, to use a particular name.
With the proliferation of world wide domain name registrars from all countries around the globe, in which many of these countries, such as China do not even maintain the same social/ethical value systems, makes it even more difficult to protect corporate trademarks, copyrights, and intellectual property rights. Additionally, because many of these countries have their own rules and regulations for bringing domain disputes in which the complainant bears the legal burden of proof for their own claims in the native language of the country (as opposed to English), and differs greatly from that of the ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, registration and domain dispute resolution policies, it will become increasingly difficult to protect corporate identities on the Internet. Read the following article that gives great insight into the domain name scams from China. Read the article.CN Chinese Domain Name Scams From China for more insight into this.
“Honesty the best policy” When dealing with customers and clients, not following this policy comes back to bite people time and time again.
Do not be swayed by shortsightedness. If you see a potential for a quick buck, ask yourself if this really is a proper way to go about doing something. Businesses have been guilty of shortsightedness themselves. They have extracted a quick buck at the expensive of their integrity and consumers’ wallets.
Remember, when working with clients, he or she is placing web site trust in you. Hold onto that trust dearly and don’t do anything that would harm it. They are trusting you to help them out on the Net. Remember this saying: Tell it like it is and do it with style! Customers will appreciate it.
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We have 0900 starts for now until the days lengthen but amazingly or not, our garden Dunnocks and Great Tits are already in song? How do they know?
There was sunshine this morning so I kicked off at Linnet Square and dropped yet another bucket of seed at the catching spot where dummy poles mark the line of our whoosh net. Tracks and holes in the soil told me that our seed had been found by small mammals and deer.
Trouble is, the mild, wet weather and the Linnets themselves have conspired to make catching impossible since August. The past three winters have seen a number of counts around the 400/500 mark but this season’s average is around 130 only with and a total catch of just 28, way below our target. The count this morning was 150/160 very mobile Linnets and several Chaffinches, none of which stopped to use our seed while natural food seems still plentiful. The sowing mix the farmer uses is so good that the resultant seed seems to last right through the winter until the flock disperses in March.
There was the usual Kestrel, 2 Stock Dove and a single Little Egret.
When fifteen minutes later I stopped at Conder Green the effect of the continued mild weather was noted again by way of a female/first winter Marsh Harrier. A "Gold Top", circling over the back of the pool and behind the bund, pursued all the way by a complaining Magpie.
It was roughly 20/25 years ago that Marsh Harriers were something of a rarity in this part of Fylde, central Lancashire. It was around that time that Marsh Harriers began to breed in