How can Politicians leverage the Internet to connect with their constituents?

The 2008 Election proved that politicians can reach their constitutents and connect with them via a variety of new online tools that support collaboration.  What are the most effective ways you've found to connect with your representatives?  How can politicians continue to leverage the Internet to connect with their constituents?

How can technology advance politics?

How can Repubs and Dems Work Together Online to Create Government Transparency?

New communication technologies are recreating democracy and the Web is the enabler. Citizens can use the Web free government information from unwieldy sites, to lobby for more data online, to scrutinize government information and to ask hard questions. If this effort is coordinated across the political spectrum, activists can unite and use legislative data to make Congress more accountable. How can each party leverage government data and coalesce parties irrespective of their ideological or partisan affiliation in order to achieve policy victories?

Will Old Media Paradigms Shift Into the New Media World?

Can games be a useful tool to engage the public in policy development?

What is More Effective: Civil Disobedience or Violence?

Will Obama Turn This Country Into A Socialist Country?

Should Gays Be Allowed To Adopt?

What affect will the new administration’s use of tech have on congress?