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<div>Here's the ICANN for Business website we're discussing in Durban this morning.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>New LinkedIn Group for ICANN Business Enagagement<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Over the past six months you have helped shape our thinking on how to engage with organizations like yours. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Here's what we've heard: we need to make ICANN easier to follow and continue show its relevance to a variety of businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">To that end, we are launching <span class="apple-style-span"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICANN-Business-5097881">ICANN for Business</a><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICANN-Business-5097881"> </a></span>on
LinkedIn. Please join today and comment on what you see!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thank you for your attention and advice. I hope you will continue to provide feedback to me or to our content coordinator, Riccardo Ruffolo.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300; Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Skype: chris.mondini.icann</span></i><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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