Its not "millions" that have been sold, but the online stores and some brick and mortar stores are quickly selling out of their stock. All because of using (mostly) LinkedIn as a source of social networking contacts. By using LinkedIn in a certain way I've been able to  promote my book "How To Be A Creative Genius (in five minutes or less)" and interact directly with readers. No newsletter or SEO, just good old fashioned online networking.

In the United States, international export of high tech goods accounted for $214 billion in revenue in 2007, while imports totaled $333 billion, according to the AeA (formerly known as the American Electronics Association). This tradeflow, coupled with the steady increase in cross border development, design and manufacturing of goods, is a strong indicator of the demand for software that assists companies to translate product documents into multiple languages. In fact, according to Across Systems, multiational companies typically translate written materials into somewhere between 10 and 30 languages per document. But how do companies maintain productivity of knowledge workers? And in America, do companies value the language assets they have for how important those are to global marketing and localization?

I thought this might be an interesting concept for a best practices story because knowledge worker productivity is an important component of innovation and translation of documents an

This cutting edge SEO strategy wasn’t about impressions, clicks or conversions.  It was about preserving the Search equity associated with a proliferation of micro-sites targeted at disparate market segments.

It signifies a liberation for marketers: a way to leverage their past efforts and capitalizes on their Search investment. This campaign was a historic winner at this years BMA international Pro-Comm awards in the on air/online category.

Problem:

Consolidation of Multiple Web Sites Threatens to Diminish Organic Search Visibility, Rankings and Traffic

Target Audience:
•    Commercial/Residential Building Materials Professionals
o    Architects, Product Specifyers, Builders, Distributors, Contractors

Media Considerations:
•    Search Engine Spiders
o    Google, Yahoo, MSN, ASK, etc

Objective:
•    Increase search footprint for Johns Manville
•    Negate the threat of lost organic search traffic

In 2007, Johns Manville moved aggressively to consolidate ten au

Enterprise software is notorious for being extremely difficult to implement and even more difficult to learn how to use. What if this software could be redesigned to be as intuitive to use as Web 2.0 tools and other applications found on the Web?

IFS Aurora -- a new user interface for the suite of applications from IFS -- just completed alpha testing and will go into the early adapter roll-out shortly. A release on this is coming, but we can get you started writing about this now.

http://blogs.eweek.com/masked_intentions/content/enterprise_applications/enterprise_applications_needs_a_web_20_facelift.html

http://www.managingautomation.com/maonline/news/read/IFS_Previews_New_User_Interface_30694

If you have a story you want me to cover in Fast Company Buzz for FastCompany.com, post the pitch and votes will decide which stories are buzzworthy.   I will also make my "personal" choice selection from the submissions.  If you have BREAKING news or a release under embargo, send it to Frandao@gmail.com

Scott Anthony, co-founder of Innoight (Clayton Christensen's consulting firm) will seek out companies engaged in disruptive innovations and discuss their strategies with their CEOs