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E-Commerce and Internet Technologies - Week 8

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  E-Commerce and Internet Technologies Hi everyone welcome back to my blog, I hope you enjoyed my blog last week and as always I enjoyed hearing your feedback.Today I am going to talk to you about the importance of finding the right internet technologies to start up your E-commerce business. E-Commerce allows a company to sell its goods and services through their website, which we like to call "online shopping". During the Covid 19 Pandemic a lot of company's had no choice but to sell their products and services online or else they wouldn't have survived. E-commerce systems allow company's like hairdressers, cafe, restaurants etc to have a booking system for their customers. Today I will be reviewing 3 different online platforms that would be best suited and can be easily integrated into a website to help a business engage in e-commerce. 1. The first business I will review is a new Gym which will need a online website that show cases their facilities, allow existi...

Search Engine Optimization - Week 9

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 Search Engine Optimization Hi everyone, welcome back to my blog. I hope you loved my blog from last week on about the importance of finding the right internet technologies to start up your E-commerce business. Today I will be talking about how a business owner can improve the quality and quantity of the website traffic through search engines. I will give 10 tips that have been proven to boost website ranking. 1. Create Consistent Content:  By creating informative and engaging consistent blogs, it will improve search engine optimisation (SEO), it will increase more traffic to the sight. 2. Go into depth on your topics:   By going into depth on your content can give the readers the answers they want and can then boost your SEO. 3. Website Design: Businesses must ensure that their website is well structured and is accessible to all forms of technologies eg Phones, Laptops, I pads etc. The company should ensure to use different fonts, pictures, videos and links for the...

Its all about Engagement!!! - Week 7

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 Its all about Engagement!!! Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog. I hope you enjoyed my previous blog. Today I will be talking  about how to engage visitors to your blog. Engagement includes many factors including like, share, comment which is feedback and indicates how well people liked your blog. When I first started out my blog I would have struggled with getting engagement on my page, where I reached out to other bloggers along the way where they gave me some advice on how they increased their readers. Below I will talk about my past experiences, what worked best for me to increase my engagement. I found that I needed to create content that focused on my target and present audience and second of all blogging about topics that I like writing about. This has made it a less stressful and a more enjoyable process. I found that the best way to increase my engagement was through people liking, sharing and commenting on my posts and it exposed me to new potential readers and I ...

Big Data presents several potential ethical and social challenges - Week 6

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Big Data Presents several potential ethical and social challenges Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog. I hope you enjoyed my previous blog.Today I will be talking about Big Data and the challenges it faces. Here is a video explaining what Big Data is.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQeyU0YcPKY Big Data is becoming more of a topical conversation each day due to technology growing and our reliance on data systems for companies. For those who do not know what Big Data is, it is a large data set that is so big that traditional data processing software cannot process it. There are also 3 types of Big Data, Structured Data, Unstructured Data and Semi Structured Data.  Examples of Structured Data would be name, address, credit card number, location etc. Examples of Unstructured Data would be social media posts, photos, audio, video etc. Facebook uses 500 terabytes a day to store peoples posts and pictures and Google records 3.5 Million search's per day !!! There are many concerns...

Enterprise Applications

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  Three Companies that used Enterprise Applications successfully Hey everyone, welcome back to my blog! I hope you enjoyed my blog from last week. This week I will be explaining how three companies utilise enterprise applications successfully to support their business strategy and model.Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software is used in a business to organise and manage the day to day operations in the business for optimal performance.  The first company I will be talking about is Amazon who are an e-commerce business, where companies large or small can sell their products on their website.Amazons business strategy is very customer focused, as they are determined to make the customers experience enjoyable and satisfactory. They encourage their customers to leave reviews so they can improve their business.  Amazon uses a system called SAP for lots of elements in  their company Eg "Amazon Business". Amazon could see that a lot of businesses and organisations were b...

Project Management - Information Systems

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  The Implementation of Information Systems for Companies Hey everyone welcome back to my blog, I hope you enjoyed my discussion about the Digital economy in Ireland last week. As always I appreciate your feedback on my blogs and I take on board your suggestions.This week my blog is all about the Implementation of Information System for companies. Information Systems is a set of interacting components that gather, process, store and distribute  information in order to support decision making in an organisation.Information Systems contain data that is raw facts that represents business transactions and it can also contain information that is useful for the company while making decisions. In my opinion, I think that companies struggle with the implementation of new Information S ystems as they have not done enough research on selecting the appropriate system that the company needs.The company needs to take note of what they want from the system, analyse what ...

Ireland as a Digital Economy - Hannah Dunphy

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 Ireland as a Digital Economy  Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you enjoyed my blog from last week. Today's blog is going to give a break down of the Digital Economy in Ireland. Corporation tax:  The Corporation Tax rate in Ireland is 12.5% which is very attractive for multinational companies to set up due to it being one of lowest in the world (Linkedin, 2023) .TikTok, Facebook, Apple, Google and much more household names are located in Ireland (O'Carroll & Partington, 2021) , which employ over 300,000 people in Ireland (IDA, 2022) .From January 2024, the corporation tax rate in Ireland will increase to 15% (Moore, 2023) Here is a link to Pascal O'Donohoe explaining the changes around corporation tax increasing to 15% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbkEWkzJjrw Member of the EU:  Ireland is one of the 27 countries that is part of the EU (European Union, n.d.) , which participates in free trade arrangements of the European Union. This is a huge in...