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July 22, 2011
New Studies Tout Telework’s Positive Impact on Productivity
Because telework has so much upside and helps save taxpayers’ money, TCG has long been a fierce advocate of this practice and we’re always pleased to pass on news about telework’s benefits to our readers. Federal Computer Week has just posted…
July 18, 2011
NIH BCIG Announces Fall 2011 Program
The NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG) has announced its Fall 2011 Program. All sessions are free and open to the public. For more information visit the BCIG home page.
Fall 2011 Program
Sep 1: BCIG Brainstorming Power Breakfast (unstructured…
July 15, 2011
National Grants Partnership Announcements
The National Grants Partnership (NGP) has posted several announcements on its blog:
A recording of the July 13 webinar with the most up-to-date information on potential changes to federal grants reporting as envisioned in a recent Presidential Executive Order and Congressional legislation…
Grants.gov Announces Stakeholder Webcast
Grants.gov has announced that its next Stakeholder Webcast will be held on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will be a webcast only and registration is NOT required. The program agenda is as follows: …
July 6, 2011
AGA Call for Volunteers: Candidate Assessment Tool for Grants Managers
The Association of Government Accountants (AGA) is launching a new project to help identify accomplished grants managers. AGA just issued a call for volunteers to develop a “Candidate Assessment Tool” for use by managers at all levels of government in screening candidates…
GPA Announces 13th Annual Conference and Expo
The Grants Professionals Association (GPA) has announced that the 13th Annual GPA Conference & Expo and CharityChannel Summit will be held at the Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, October 5–8, 2011. This event, which will feature 50 plus workshops for…
Emergency Recovery of Zimbra’s OpenLDAP
Last weekend (July 3rd, 2011), Washington had a tremendous thunderstorm, which led to a long power outage. We have a number of experimental and development virtual machines in our local server farm that were impacted, but what was truly hit hard was an…
July 5, 2011
FDP registration for September 2011 now open
The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) has opened registration for their September 14–16 meeting. Go to this page to register. The agenda is still being finalized but the FDP meetings are always full of great content for research administrators and government…
June 20, 2011
Test in Peoria, Test in Düsseldorf , Test in 東京
Have you ever had someone mispronounce your name? It doesn’t happen to me often because I have a simple enough name, but it does bug me when it happens. Names don’t always follow the normal pronunciation rules so it’s not really the…
June 15, 2011
NITRC Passes Milestone
NITRC–the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse–recently passed the 3,000 registered users level and now has 383 registered tools available for users. TCG built and operates NITRC for NIH. Under this contract, TCG established a web-based clearinghouse for neuroimaging analysis tools,…