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June 10, 2008
NGP JUne 11th teleconference passcode changed!
Note that the new number is as follows: 800–857-9722 passcode 5168241…
January 20, 2011
Grants.gov webcast — now 2/2/11 at 1pm
Head on over to http://videocast.nih.gov at 1pm on February 2nd to join the Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast. Looks like an interesting agenda:
Introduction – Webcast Participants
Grant.gov Status Update
Grants.gov/Grantsolution Partnership
Grantsolution Services
Grants.gov/COE Discussion
Grants.gov Support
Q&A – Questions from…
January 2, 2007
Government Futures
Government Futures is a relatively new site intends to create dialog and encourage participation in modernizing government. Founded by Bruce McConnell and Margaret Anderson, both well-known faces in DC’s IT circles, the site features micropolls, blogs, and white papers on issues…
September 19, 2006
NGP 9/12/06 webcast now online
Ken Fang of the excellent Altum Inc. kindly tapes and uploads video from each NGP meeting. The latest one has just been made available, at http://thengp.org/Meetings/20060912.htm. Apparently there was a slight audio drop-out during one presentation but otherwise it’s two hours…
June 2, 2007
Use Firefox keyword searches to speed browsing
Via the wonderful Lifehacker, I discovered a feature of Firefox that I can’t believe I didn’t know about before. You can create keywords for search boxes on pretty much any Web page and then, when you invoke the keyword in the Firefox address bar,…
March 11, 2009
Adding the Boolean Operator OR to Nutch
Nutch is an open source web-search crawler and engine. Built upon the Apache Lucene text search engine, Nutch allows you to add a mini “Google”-like indexing and query environment right to your Web site, but with added features like semantic tagging…
May 29, 2007
Grants.gov Update from FDP Meeting, 5/25/2007
Feeling refreshed from a long weekend of being exhausted by children, I’m pleased to finally write up my notes from the Grants.gov Update session at last week’s FDP meeting. Michael Pellegrino, Vince Sprouls, and a gentleman whose name I didn’t catch presented the…
July 25, 2009
NGMA calling for ARRA articles
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) publishes a peer-reviewed bi-annual journal on a wide variety of grants management topics. They’re currently seeking new articles from the community. Here’s their information release:
Call for Articles — American Recovery and Reinvestment Act The Editorial…
February 14, 2012
TCG Customer Named Federal 100 Award Winner
Christopher Friedline, program manager for the Department of the Treasury/Bureau of the Public Debt Budget Formulation and Exectuion Manager (BFEM) program, has been named a 2012 Fed 100 awards winner. The awards, which are sponsored by Federal Computer Week, recognize 100…
September 13, 2006
Grants.gov and Mac issue highlighted again in WashPost
The Washington Post has a column today called Macs and Grant Site Just Don’t Click to follow up from an article back in February. Rick Weiss has found some interesting facts:
Northrop Grumman has been testing the PureEdge/IBM Workplace Forms Mac…