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The Control System Integrators Association (CSIA) launched the Exchange, a Milieu-powered buyer’s guide and digital marketplace, with a clear vision: connect system integrators with prospective clients and create a sustainable stream of non-dues revenue. In its first year, the Exchange brought in a promising $74,000, establishing a solid foundation for a powerful visibility, credibility, and lead generation platform.

Recognizing the Exchange’s potential, CSIA made a strategic ...

We’ve all seen it before.

An organization launches a new community platform with energy and good intentions. The technology works. The welcome emails go out. Members receive logins. A few early posts appear, perhaps a note from the board chair or a discussion starter from staff.

Then the feed goes quiet.

The metrics flatten. Engagement slows. Staff scramble to revive interest, but the momentum never returns.

The problem is not the software. It is the absence of gravity.

Most online ...

I've heard a lot of people say that 5 years is a lifetime in tech, that if it takes more than a couple of years to get the details right, you've missed your market.  I don't agree with that notion at all. Really innovative, truly disruptive products often arrive years before the market is ready for them.  It takes an enormous amount of evidence and evangelizing to persuade people to abandon the certainty of the familiar for the possibility of the better.   It takes ...

Is it possible to reimagine a 50 year old academic program directory? The American Anthropological Association thinks so and we are glad they chose Milieu EDU Exchange to do it!

The American Anthropological Association is the leading organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology and AnthroGuide is the go-to resource for academic counselors advising prospective students. Unfortunately, few students discovered the resource on their own and when they did, they ...

Some initiatives start slow and gain traction over time, others take flight immediately and grow and grow and grow.  EngineerGirl is still illuminating pathways into engineering for middle school girls 18 years after its launch.  Only 2 years after transforming it for the 5th time using Milieu KM Exchange, its clear that one of the National Academy of Engineering's most impactful communities is only getting started.

In 2001 Diamax and the NAE developed a ...

The NAE uses Milieu to equip university educators around the world to teach ethics to future scientists and engineers.

Diamax migrated the Online Ethics Center from Case Western University to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007 and has supported it with digital strategy and knowledge management technology ever since. Diamax redesigned the OEC and upgraded it to Milieu in 2014, enabling the NAE to greatly expand its resource collection and to build a community of science and engineering ...

Milieu is the product of a digital journey that began in the late 80's. Over the years I've realized that technology can't replace the knowledge and wisdom of people with deep experience.  We can extend and amplify knowledge within an organization to increase innovation, build resiliency, or improve competitiveness, but we can't replace years of experience with knowledge repositories, search tools, or models.

Milieu is about getting you to a person who can help you ...