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October 10, 2012
You Are What You Measure: Accountability
When states were forced to make their spending public, the process helped the states learn what they were doing well.
May 5, 2008
Office 2007 converter for OSX
After receiving a lot of files with the dreaded “.docx” filename extension, I discovered that Microsoft has a converter available for OSX that transforms these Windows Office 2007 files into Mac Office 2004 format. It’s not perfect (it’s in beta right now) and…
September 26, 2014
TCG Has No Brakes, Speeds Toward Certain Growth
As if being ranked on both the Inc. 5000 and the Washington Business Journal’s list of the Top Small Technology Companies weren’t enough, TCG has just been named as one of the Greater Washington Area’s Fastest Growing Companies by the Washington…
May 17, 2011
TCG is a 2011 Inner City 100 Winner
TCG has been named by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune Magazine as one of the 100 fastest growing inner city companies in the United States. The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful inner city companies and their…
March 11, 2008
Notes from the NGP Meeting, March 11
I managed to get the NGP meeting today and took some notes, which I thought by be useful to a few readers. (Click the link below for more.) Topics and speakers were:
OMB Update — Marguerite Pridgen
Mandatory Grants Panel — Sheldon Edner…
December 1, 2005
Kim Nelson, EPA CIO, going to Microsoft
Nelson to step down as EPA CIO.
Kim’s been a vocal supporter of e‑government and a strong manager. This
is a great move for her…and a great catch for Microsoft.…
September 20, 2007
FDP starts government grantor systems wiki
FDP’s inimitable Ron Splittgerber of Colorado State has taken it upon himself to start a wiki that will document agency grant systems, interfaces, forms, and a host of other great information. The prototype is up here and will be based on data…
August 7, 2005
TagCloud
TagCloud is a new folksonomy tool that “searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from
the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds.” This is useful because you can quickly see what tags are…
November 29, 2005
Johns Hopkins accelerates Grants.gov plans
MIT participated in Grants.gov’s applicant system-to-system interface pilot, developing out their Coeus system, which is used by a great many grantees for their grants management needs. Steve Dowdy, MIT’s lead developer for this effort, is a very well-spoken advocate and critic of…
October 15, 2008
Grants.gov Newsletter Fall 2008 now available
It’s here! The major headline is that Grants.gov has passed the 200,000 application mark for FY2008. Quite an achievement!…