Not long after launching in 2005, Minkoff noticed that users on the Purse Forum blog were talking about her products and what worked.

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Bush and former President Bill Clinton engaged in online chats with citizens, but neither relied on the Internet as a platform for reaching the American public as Obama does, said Andrew Rasiej, co-founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and the techPresident blog.

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The blog provided more than a forum for acquiring devoted fans and followers for the women, however.

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Aaron Eitan Meyer recently received his Juris Doctor degree from Touro Law Center, and is currently Assistant to the Director at the Legal Project of the Middle East Forum and Legal Correspondent to the Terror Finance Blog.

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The next step is to post a comment to a blog or ask a question on a forum where you are identified.

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"Internet-enabled technology, that which networks us together, has done a huge amount for humanity in general, " Scott Carpenter, the principal at Google Ideas, said at the Oslo Freedom Forum earlier this year, according to a live blog.

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While the forum is focused on fielding questions about FreshBooks' service, the blog aims to share Freshbooks' perspective on running a growing small business--everything from collecting money to managing a sales staff.

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