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Volunteers Use Twitter to Help Victims of Indonesia Eruptions
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Amid the panic caused by Mount Merapi’s marathon eruptions since Oct.26, a community of volunteers updated information about the disaster for 24 hours via Twitter.
While most villagers fled to escape the hot clouds and volcanic ash, the volunteers posted the latest status about the eruption online.
The Jaringan Informasi Lingkar Merapi (Merapi Circle Information Network), or Jalan Merapi, is a group of villagers that manage @jalinmerapi, a Twitter account that connects people in the timeline and provides data about Mount Merapi’s eruptions.
They collect factual data from a resident-owned observation station in Deles, Sidorejo village, in Kemalang sub-district, Klaten, Central Java, located 4 kilometers from the mountain’s peak.
Sukiman Mochtar Pratomo, 40, founder of Jalin Merapi, said they started tweeting on Oct. 25, a day before the first eruption.
“Within a very short time, we had more than 9,000 followers. We share links from various sources and re-tweet information from people related to the crisis of Mount Merapi,” he said.
On Twitter, Sukiman and his friends send messages covering crucial information about Mount Merapi’s eruptions.
These include the movement of hot clouds and volcanic ash, status of evacuations and refugees, aid, the number of injured and death toll updates, the activities of search and rescue teams, police and soldiers, appeals and policies of the government.
They also provide telephone numbers of temporary shelters, hospitals, police offices, bank accounts and aid stations.
When Sleman and Yogyakarta were covered in volcanic ash after Mount Merapi erupted again on Saturday morning, @jalinmerapi told the social community in Twitter’s time line that local residents needed masks but pharmacies had run out of stock.
Sukiman and his friends got public assistance immediately.
The account also released information about the Oct.26 eruption, telling where prevailing winds were pushing heat clouds and volcanic ash.
“We have a visual report from a resident-owned observation station in Deles hamlet, a kilometer away from Woro River, one of the rivers on the slopes of Mount Merapi.
“When most villagers fled after the mountain erupted, we used loudspeakers to alert them and immediately wrote the latest status on Twitter,” he said.
“We also countered news reports that were not true. For example, a TV station said on Saturday early morning that hot clouds reached Yogyakarta, making people run in panic.”
Sukiman said they are aware of the risks of their work. But he said the volunteers of Lintas Merapi community, founded in 2006, were trained in search and rescue protocol.
On Monday, the account gathered 450 volunteers to be deployed to various areas.
“We thank @jalinmerapi for working hard to share information about the state of Mount Merapi,” said Budi Sulistyo, a resident of Bantul district.
Tirta Kusuma from Yogyakarta city said information from @jalinmerapi was very helpful and much better than the local government’s reports.
Resources:
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/volunteers-use-twitter-to-help-victims-of-indonesia-eruptions/404426
Related articles
- Indonesia’s aid effort for Mount Merapi volcano survivors criticised (telegraph.co.uk)
- Mount Merapi Eruption Causes Flight Cancellations (huffingtonpost.com)
- Merapi eruption cancels flights (bbc.co.uk)
Paid Survey
0Menurut Wikipedia, Paid Survey adalah:
A paid or incentivized survey is a type of statistical survey where the participant is rewarded through an incentive program, generally entry into a sweepstakes program or a small cash reward, for completing one or more surveys.
A paid survey is used to collect quantitative information about the participants’ personal and economic habits set against their particular demographic. Incentivized surveys are considered to be more likely to catch a wider and more representative range of respondents compared to unincentivised surveys. YouGov in the United Kingdom say:
“Respondents receive a small incentive for completing YouGov surveys. The purpose is to ensure that samples are as representative as possible, and that responses are not tilted towards those passionately interested in the subject of the particular survey.”
Legitimate surveys are usually unpaid (as with Gallup poll) or incentivized (as with YouGov); surveys where the respondent must pay or purchase products to join a panel are generally scams, as are sites that disappear before paying the participants. Legitimate surveys do not need credit card information from respondents.
In the last few years most U.S. market research companies have developed online panels to recruit participants and gather information. With the power of the internet thousands of respondents can be contacted instantly rather than the weeks and months it used to take to conduct interviews through telecommunication and/or mail. By conducting research online, a research company can reach out to demographics they may not have had access to when using other methods.
When a research company needs respondents from a demographic they cannot reach they can easily reach out to a worldwide or specialty panel. By offering a cash incentive to respondents in return for feedback these companies are able to quickly fill quotas and collect the information being sought by the client.
Yang terjemahan secara bebasnya adalah Paid Survey adalah sebuah tipe pengumpulan statistik dimana pengisi survey tersebut mendapatkan hadiah/insentip baik berupa kesempatan memenangkan hadiah tertentu ataupun dalam bentuk uang yang dalam jumlah kecil apabila mereka mengisi satu buah survey atau lebih.
Nah, sudah mengerti kan?
Untuk menjaga-jaga agar anda tidak tertipu dengan banyak iming-iming survey yang bisa menghasilkan puluhan atau ratusan bahkan ribuan dollar perjam dengan syarat anda membayar informasi tersebut di muka (bayar dulu baru dapet informasi), saya sudah membuat satu blog yang bekerjasama dengan sebuah badan survey yang terpercaya dan saya juga rajin menjadi affiliate untuk survey-survey yang sudah terkenal bahwa mereka terpercaya (dan yang paling penting!) mereka terbukti membayar.. 
Dan bagian yang terbaiknya adalah, survey ini gratis dan pasti (dibayar!). Silahkan menuju ke sini atau salin-tempel (copy paste?) ini ke peramban (browser) anda: http://www.paidsurvey.co.cc
Ada yang ingin ditanyakan? Silahkan bertanya di komentar, saya akan coba jawab.
Oya, anda akan memerlukan akun paypal untuk bisa mendapatkan bayaran, silahkan klik disini untuk mendaftar.
Ngantri USB
0This one happens at JCC on the 1st of March 2009. There was an information regarding this UFD(USB Flash Disk) 2GB that sold for IDR35k. Then my mom and the rest of the gang were planning to get one.
Here’s some of the picture about it(sorry for the bad imagery, poor lighting makes my mobile phone camera crippled!):
