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April 2, 2009

Buying COTS grants management systems, and aligning with GMLOB

A couple of years ago I made some presentations at the NGMA Conference, and posted them here via Slideshare. That system tells me that the presentations are getting a lot of views lately. As it’s clearly of interest again, I thought it might…
November 11, 2008

Lines of Business: OMB’s Mistakes and How It Can Fix Them

Here is the fundamental challenge: Each new grant program passed by Congress creates a tiny new fiefdom in a government agency. This fiefdom directly gets funding and has the ability in many cases to set up its own management processes and systems.…
July 10, 2009

NGMA offering federal grants online training

It’s late on a Friday, so of course I’m posting grants management news to the blog. What? You mean you don’t post information about the business of grants at the start of the weekend?! Anyway, the NGMA announced earlier this week…
March 19, 2007

Grants.gov and the NSF experience

Earlier this month, Science magazine’s ScienceCareers site had a nice article about Grants.gov, from the perspective of people from NSF, the developers of FastLane. If you’ve ever used FastLane, reading this article gives a good sense of how that system began and…
April 13, 2021

Why it Pays to Invest in Employee Happiness

Of late, the U.S. workforce has experienced a series of events that has assuredly impacted morale and, therefore, productivity. Some companies may regard investments in employee wellbeing as an unnecessary expense. TCG regards investments for employees as investments in the wellbeing…
October 8, 2013

Google Chrome 30: Improved XSS Protection Breaks Google Maps with IFrames

Let’s say you used your LottsaMoneyBank web site to access your account but didn’t log out. It’s possible for another unscrupulous web page to create a hidden “IFrame”, load up a LottsaMoneyBank page, and since you aren’t logged out, attempt to do…
February 20, 2009

NGP meeting rescheduled for 3/31/09

The last NGP meeting was canceled due to a broken water main at the Department of Education, and it has now been rescheduled for March 31st, 1.30pm‑3.30pm. The agenda is the same as before (here). And, remember, even if you can’t…
May 21, 2007

AZOGroup — tutorials about how to obtain grants

Chad Kimball of AZO Group contacted me by e‑mail to point out their online video tutorials about how to obtain grants from the government, foundations, and other places.  I took a quick run through the Grants.gov one, and it looks pretty good.…
February 14, 2008

Call for papers: “Global HealthGrid: eScience Meets Biomedical Informatics”

Lots of activity in the BCIG these days! This just appeared…  6th Annual HealthGrid International Conference International HealthGrid meeting extends deadline for papers to February 15th Feb. 8 — In response to numerous requests to extend the deadline for submitting…
February 8, 2011

AABPA discussion on the President’s budget and fiscal reform

AABPA has just announced an extremely interesting topic for their February 17th program meeting. Here are the details: A Discussion: The President’s Budget and Fiscal Reform with Maya MacGuineasPresident of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Director of the…