The first newsgroups and discussion groups appeared in the early years of the Internet, around 1980, and the bulletin board system allowed topic-related discussion groups from 1990 on.

FORBES: The Entangled Revolution Has Begun

The smacking ban was the first topic on the agenda of the new system of member-led debates.

BBC: Debate by an Individual Member

Replying for the government, Baroness Hanham reminded peers the system had "a history going back generations" but pledged to raise the topic with other ministers.

BBC: Calls for UK laws to be made easier to understand

And I want to create groups of these contacts (again, in my CRM system so I can track history and build workflows) who are discussing a topic so I can message them all at once.

FORBES: There's Something Big Missing From LinkedIn

Although Monsanto has promised to put its terminator-gene system in deep-freeze, the molecular switching that underlies it remains a hot topic at many of the world's leading agri-biotechnology firms.

ECONOMIST: Terminator genes

For example, the New College of the Humanities will offer a liberal arts education of the kind which will be familiar to American readers and is so lacking in Europe, where most generally students must pick a topic of study (often vocational) upon their leaving the secondary school system.

FORBES: Does Higher Education Need To Go Back To The Fifties?

In choosing the topic for this year's symposium--maintaining stability in a changing financial system--the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City staff is, once again, right on target.

FORBES: Reducing Systemic Risk