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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…
May 9, 2007
Call for articles: USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions newsletter
Just received this call for articles via the National Grants Partnership mailing list. Looks like a good opportunity to raise awareness about those doing good work!
USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions publishes a newsletter that reports on trends and successes in information technology from…
September 1, 2009
TCG Ranked #692 on 2009 Inc. 5000!
We’re delighted to announce today that TCG is once again on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately-held companies in the United States of America! The list is based on revenue growth, and TCG’s revenue grew by 405.7% from…
October 26, 2006
Grants.gov Stakeholder’s Meeting 10/25/06. And I don’t mean to be annoying. Honest!
The Grants.gov PMO held their bi-monthly Stakeholder’s Meeting yesterday and while I couldn’t attend (we’re responding to a large proposal and I’m — how can I put it? — going nuts) I got the notes from a colleague. The presentations should be on the Grants.gov…
November 8, 2006
Altum acquires Easygrants from defunct Arlington Group
I see that our friends at Altum have acquired Arlington Group’s Easygrants software! This is a great development for Easygrant users because support was non-existent as a consequence of Arlington Group shutting up shop. Altum’s a great company and their founder, Ken Fang, is…
November 26, 2008
FDP meeting agenda announced
The Federal Demonstration Project’s January meeting agenda is now available, here.…
November 6, 2007
Reminder: Excellence.Gov Awards nominations due November 16th
I’m co-chairing the 2008 Excellence.Gov Awards, with Andy Lieber of Grant Thornton, and last Friday we extended the nomination deadline to Friday November 16. So get your nominations in, at www.actgov.org/excellencegovawards. For all the info you need, click to continue…
July 16, 2010
GMLOB shifting to “shared services”?
The Management Concepts (lovely, sweet-smelling, and smart people that they are) Grants Blog reported earlier this week that Danny Werfel, Controller of OMB’s Office of Federal Financial Management, said the following at the recent Association of Government Accountants Professional Development…
August 30, 2005
NGP article in GCN
Before I went on vacation last week I was interviewed by Government Computer News’ Jason Miller about the National Grants Partnership’s first white paper. The resulting article was published yesterday and I think it captures the core of the white paper very well,…
July 9, 2007
Grants.gov reaches major milestone
This news was posted to the Grants.gov technical alerts Web page today. It’s really a wonderful achievement.
Grants.gov Processes 150,000th Federal Grant Application!
Grants.gov has received its 150,000th electronic grant application for fiscal year 2007, far exceeding a program milestone for the…