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Individual blog entry, E-commerce group 2

This week, I finished researching on my sections of the recommendation report. My sections are the 'drawbacks' and the 'practical issues' section. I also finished writing my sections and added them to the rest of the report. I meet with my group Sunday to edit some parts of our recommendation report following the suggestions our classmates gave on the peer evaluations. I plan to work on wrtiting my bullets for the power point presentation; we are going to meet again before the presentation to put everyone's part together.

Personal Blog Entry #1, Recommendation Report

This past week, we met in class to decide which of our 3 alternatives we would choose for our recommendation report, we chose the one involving outsourcing to a company that developed a very effective and complete fraud detection software. The company, which is actually the merger of two very effective firms: iovation and IDinsight, will release its new software very soon, and we believe eBay would be better off buying it that trying to create and implement a software by themselves. I met with my group Friday after class and we all wrote together our plan of action memo. Then, Agnes and I worked Sunday in the creation of the Gantt chart. Personally, I assigned each of the individual tasks to each one of us and did the color distribution on the chart. Finally, I sent it to Agnes and she printed it. We turned it in Monday morning in class. This week, we are expected to each start researching of the topics that were assigned to each one of us in by the Gantt chart.

 

Ricardo Santizo.

E-Commerce Fraud Group, Week 1, Recommendation Report

This last week, we got together in class wednesday and decided which of our three alternatives we would choose for our recommendation report. We all agreed that the solution that related to outsourcing the implementation of the anti-fraud software was the most effective one. This is true because of the alternative's low cost; not only economic, but also relating to the cost of implementing and training of the eBay's personnel. Moreover, the company that we chose (it is more like a merger of two companies that is expected to occur soon) is the most experienced and effective in anti-fraud and fraud detection software. Ebay would practically be leaving their fraud problems in the hands of the most reliable and experienced companies available.

After class Friday, we had some time to get together and decide which one of us would do what part of the project. We wrote our plan of action memo and then, Sunday at noon, we met and developed our Gantt chart. Here, we specified who would take care of which part of the project, as well as the time we would invest in each specific section. I think it ended up being very organized and it will be very effetive in helping us organize our project.

E-Commerce Fraud, Blog Entry #4

This week, we finished all three portions of our project: handouts, final white paper, and presentation. We met Tuesday evening at Hicks Undergraduate Library to finish the final draft of our white paper project. What we did was basically make shure that all the information that each one of us had specifically written made sense and that it all looked as if it were written by the same person. We also reviewed the evaluations received from other groups and made changes according to some of their suggestions. We then met Wednesday, in the same place, to start our power point presentation. We all worked together in this and came up with a very good design and organization. Moreover, me and my group finished and perfected our citations. Finally, we met again for the last time Thursday night to decide who was going to say each part of the presentation. We also printed the handouts that we will give tomorrow in class and prepared for out final presentation tomorrow.

Personal Blog Entry

This week, I revised my part of the project and made some changes suggested by the peer evaluation we had in class. I also updated the works cited part and did more research on background information and steps previously taken to address the problem. I met with my group Tuesday to finish our final copy of the white paper.  

E-commerce Fraud, Group Entry #3

Each of the group members spent the past week and weekend writing separate
portions of the white paper draft. We had an efficient way of dividing the work
and emailing each other the portions according to our schedule since we were
not able to meet during the weekend. Ultimately, one person put together all
the portions and that was our draft.

After doing peer reviews, we learned how to fix our white paper. We realized
that we were missing quite a bit from it, and after critiquing someone else's,
we saw our strengths and our weaknesses.

This weekend we have the task of editing our individual contributions. The
things we need to fix are making our portions more concise, doing both pros and
cons in our solutions, deleting irrelevant portions of our paper and similarly
adding in entire portions that we failed to address, and creating a more
organized look to our paper. Next Tuesday we will be meeting after we have
finished editing our portions so that we can all have a final say for the
white paper. We hope that after that we can have the white paper spiral bound.

Personal Blog Entry, White Paper Project, Week 2

After meeting on class last Friday, we created our work schedule and decided that each one of us would research on two possible solutions for our topic of "E-Commerce Fraud". I researched before going on Fall Break and found two solutions that I thought were very interesting. One of them consisted in companies specializing in E-commerce fraud to engage in a series of policies before accepting possible clients. The following websites explain that solution:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/IP/Credit_Card_Fraud_Prevent.aspx

http://technology.inc.com/security/articles/200808/fraud.html

I also found examples of big cases were e-commerce fraud existed as part of my research for background history on E-commerce and E-commerce fraud. 

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/6723.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/03/26/ebay.fraud.ap/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078461/

http://www.tvhistory.tv/ebayfraud.htm

On Wednesday, I wrote my first draft on one of the solutions that me and my group chose. Tonight, Thursday, i will write about background information and history of E-commerce, and send it to the members of my group. Since I am not going to be here for class tomorrow because I am going to Guatemala, we decided that both of them would write the introduction and conclusion based on what the three of us wrote and we would meet again Monday.

Personal Blog Entry, White Paper Project, Week #1

This week, I emailed the rest of my group about how important it was for us to meet to decide on what would be the focus of our project and what direction would we take. The rest of my group members agreed and we all decided that we would meet on Tuesday in our regular classroom to organize and start working on our project. After our meeting, I was selected the official blog person of the group, so I will be writing the weekly group blogs from now on. Also, we decided that we would narrow our topic to "E-commerce Fraud". After our meeting, I started doing some research on the topic and sent the information I investigated to Agnes; she was selected to write the first memo due Friday.  

E-commerce fraud, Group Entry #2

After deciding that we would focus our research on "E-commerce Fraud" and "Possible Solutions to E-commerce Fraud", we organized and elaborated our work schedule for the rest of the project. After this, each person in the group investigated by himself on two possible solutions to E-commerce fraud. We all found some very interesting proposals, and brought them to class the Wednesday after Fall Break. From the six proposals we had, we chose the three we liked the most and decided that each one of us would write about one proposal before our class on Friday the 16th. Furthermore, Ricardo Santizo would research and write about the background information to our topic, Agnes Blachut would write the introduction, and Kyle Hummel the conclusion. Next week, we will take care of the other parts of our project. So far, I think we are pretty organized and everything is going well.    

E-commerce group two, meeting one.

We meet in our normal classroom at 12:30 on tuesday. Kyle Hummel, Ricardo Santizo, and Agnes Blachut were there. The goal of the meeting was to narrow our topic and to complete and update our blog. We discussed the information we had researched and decided to write about the topic of "E-commerce Fraud". We decided we needed a lot more research, so we would each investigate on our own and then meet before friday to complete our memo. Among the delegated tasks, Ricardo Santizo became the official blog person. We also decided that Agnes Blachut will be the official "memo person", we will each give her all our information, and she will collect it and write a rough draft. For next meeting, we hope to have a lot more information on the topics of "Fraud Background Information", and "Solutions to E-commerce fraud". We would also like to investigate about examples and cases where E-commerce fraud has been present.