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December 15, 2016
Information Sharing as a Key to Efficiency
By Chelsea Dicus
Information sharing is good! Or maybe it’s bad? Perhaps, like everything, it depends on the situation and can have some murky areas. One example is open source technology, which TCG incorporates into most of our projects. We…
April 6, 2008
Xeyes: Inviting an Old Friend to Microsoft Windows
In the early 90s, we worked on these large black and white Sun monitors with X‑Windows. The problem was that with monochrome screens, we’d lose our cursor if we glanced away for a second. The solution was xeyes: a charming set of…
December 25, 2013
One More Present to Open: New (Simplified) Rules on Federal Grants
OMB's new grants rules published December 26.
January 16, 2008
Grants.gov Winter 2008 Newsletter now available
You can get it here. Although surely it should be “January 2008 Newsletter”, unless they’re way ahead of schedule or I’m way behind.
I didn’t make it to the Grants.gov Webcast today. If you did, let us know what happened in…
August 4, 2008
New legislation calls for federal grants web site
As reported over at GovExec, one part of Senator Voinovich’s new legislation is to develop a web site where grantees can track their grant applications. Clearly this is an attempt to expand the scope of Grants.gov (which was originally intended to…
February 14, 2011
AABPA announces Spring Symposium for May 11th, 2011
The AABPA symposia are always informative and helpful, with some excellent speakers. Details of the spring gathering were just sent out. Here’re the details:
Refine, Retool, Collaborate: The Future is Now
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Capital Hilton Hotel, 16th and K Streets, NW,…
June 25, 2007
FFATA presentation now online
Received from Cornelia Chebinou of NASACT, via The NGP:
A copy of the presentation on the Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) given by Tom Cooley, Chair of the Grants Policy Committee, and presented during the recent Grants Policy Committee…
October 14, 2009
Grants.gov webcast October 21st
Grants.gov’s next webcast will be on October 21st…or so Bob Beattie (aka “Cheeky Monkey”) tells me. And it’s true, too! See? Turns out that Bob is a special guest star of this webcast — the first time a non-government person will be…
June 23, 2015
Accept-All Bookmark for Google Docs Suggestions
Have you tried Google Doc’s suggestion capability? While it’s great for collaboration, unfortunately they forgot to add an “Accept All” button! I wrote a bookmark script that allows you to accept all suggestions at once in Google Chrome. To use this…
September 20, 2011
Reverse Project Estimation
TCG has a big goal we have been working towards for a number of years now. The plan is to save American taxpayers ONE BILLION DOLLARS by 2016. One of the ways we save government money is by suggesting and using existing…