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October 13, 2011
NGMA Issues Call for Journal Articles
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) Editorial Review Committee has issued a call for articles for upcoming issues of its bi-annual Journal of the National Grants Management Association.
The peer-reviewed NGMA Journal publishes articles dealing with specific grants management issues that…
June 18, 2007
Google launches a public policy blog
Google’s launched its own blog about public policy, “to do public policy advocacy in a Googley way,” claims Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s Director of Public Policy and Government Affairs. It’s certainly a good idea, even though postings over the last two months (it…
May 6, 2008
GMLOB alliances: The story updated
Back in March I posted about the various MOUs signed between agencies and GMLOB providers. Alice Stewart of Management Concepts has been researching this, and I’ve been very remiss in not updating the list. So I’m fixing that now! Additions are…
November 22, 2010
Subcontractors Again Give TCG a Thumbs Up
TCG has announced the latest results of its annual survey of companies who serve as subcontractors on TCG’s Federal government contracts. Across the board, TCG’s subcontracting partners give TCG high marks for its business relationships with its partners. Click here…
September 27, 2011
Introducing the E‑mail Charter
TCG’s mission is to save time and if you’re like me, trying to keep up with the onslaught of e‑mail certainly does not help save time. An article in Sunday’s Washington Post highlighted this growing problem and introduced the e‑mail…
March 9, 2008
Asterisk and Evolution
We’ve just switched from a regular VOIP vendor to an in-house Asterisk PBX with a T‑1.
The results have been good so far — we have much less delay on calls, and a heck of a lot more control over our phones and our…
October 27, 2006
Resolving CVS Commit Conflicts with Word Documents
CVS is extremely popular for configuration management (with Subversion quickly gaining speed). It uses “optimistic locking” in which multiple users can work on the same file at the same time, and any conflicts are resolved when the file is “checked-in”. …
July 21, 2006
Senate debates S.2590
GovExec has a good summary of the debate about S.2590, which aims to create a database of federal grants and contracts. (H.R.5060 is focused only on grants.) I’ll post more about this subject later. Gotta run to a meeting right now!…
July 21, 2008
Compusearch highlights GMLOB “Alternative Solutions Group”
As I’m in a small hiatus between proposals, now is the perfect time to catch up on some grants news. (No fishing or watching old episodes of The Riches for me, oh no!) This little nugget has been in my mailbox…
February 5, 2008
9 GMLOB MOUs signed; others appealing
The inimitable Jason Miller at Washington Technology reports that:
The policy guidance [issued by OMB as passback language to agencies alongside the FY09 budget request also addressed the Grants Management Line of Business. Agencies were to have chosen one of…