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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…
October 4, 2006
Oracle’s Grants.gov integration in PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9
Oracle issued a press release yesterday about their PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9 product. Part of this is proud to state:
PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management 9 includes out-of-the-box integration with http://www.grants.gov for organizations to obtain and view their opportunities list, preview grant applications…
July 14, 2008
Grants Policy Committee goes webified!
The Grants Policy Committee just announced their new web site, with its very own three-letter government domain name (we geeks are awed by such wonders!). Check it out at www.gpc.gov. It’s got webcast archives, contact information, a breakdown of which groups…
February 28, 2006
Little data about response grants
GovExec has reported on GAO’s finding that Federal agencies don’t know enough about how well their emegency preparedness grants are performing. It includes a quote that really is applicable to every grant program on the face of the planet:
Federal, state…
September 10, 2007
FDP: GMOB Profiles
All three of the GMLOB consortia (NSF, Education, and HHS/ACF) gave an overview of their offerings today. Notes follow the jump……
January 23, 2006
DHS’s Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation Open Source Hardening Project
Also from GCN:
The Homeland Security Department has procured a bug testing service for popular open-source programs, one that will submit applications such as Apache and MySQL to a level of scrutiny enjoyed by many commercial software providers. Open-source project leaders could…
May 24, 2007
Cayuse aims to support grant applications superbly
I met with Chris Harker and Al Hooton of Cayuse yesterday, and we had a very interesting discussion about their product and the state of ERA (electronic research administration, which refers to research institution’s management of grants and not simply the similarly-monikered…
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…
December 18, 2013
Finalists Announced for the 2013 SAVE Awards–Cast Your Vote Today!
OMB and the White House have announced the four finalists for this year’s Securing Americans Value and Efficiency (SAVE) awards. Award nominations, which promote ideas to improve government efficiency and save taxpayers’ money, are submitted by Federal employees. Anyone can…
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…