October 31, 2006

Solpath: an open source grants management package

Well I’m glad that someone has finally found the courage and means to start an open source grants management system project! These folks have just launched and are focused on foundations and non-profits. (Their chosen technology stack — PHP, MySQL,…
September 25, 2007

GAO says LOB funding contravenes appropriations law

Chris Dorobek’s blog is proving really useful! He’s highlighted a GAO report about DHS’s use of shared services, and notes that GAO has come to quite alarming conclusions:  “the legal principles are clear. [DHS] officials stated that the directorate pooled funds…
March 31, 2010

NGMA wants some Hemingways

Maybe not so much with the drunkenness and philandering, but if you’ve got a way with words and a grants management topic that you just have to talk about! then the NGMA Journal folks want to hear from you. To whit: The Editorial…
October 5, 2006

Complete this survey!

Are you a grantee? Use a grants system? You should complete this survey. (Full disclosure: I’m the Co-Chair of this committee!)  If you haven’t already responded to the National Grants Partnership survey regarding the use of standards in grants management and administration,…
March 14, 2007

Tech Work from Home: A Survival Guide

Eric Spiegel is a fellow work-from-home type who founded a great company, XTS, which provides software for planning, managing and auditing Citrix and other virtualization platforms. He also writes a regular column for IT Management, the latest of which is all about the…
May 1, 2007

Next Grants Policy Committee webcast: June 19, 1pm-3pm

I just heard that the next GPC webcast will be on June 19, from 1pm to 3pm. I don’t believe that the agenda has been issued yet but you can bet that FFATA will be under discussion! The webcast will be held…
April 7, 2008

Thunderbird and Google Desktop

I love Thunderbird. I love using Google Desktop with it — two whaps at the “Ctrl” button and I get my search box, and I’m seconds away from finding any message. Unfortunately, Google Desktop still doesn’t index documents attached to email messages stored in…
November 10, 2011

TCG’s Dan Turner Participates in Inc. 500|5000 Interview

TCG’s president, Dan Turner, recently attended the annual Inc. 500|5000 awards ceremony to accept TCG’s award and was also invited by Inc. reporters to participate in a q‑and‑a session with other executives from winning companies. To read the full press release…
September 7, 2023

How Federal Agencies Can Get the Most from Their Atlassian Tools

Atlassian offers a powerful suite of tools to manage software development, DevSecOps, data collection, workforce management, ITSM/ESM, data analytics, and more.  Agencies often face challenges in configuring these tools to create the value they actually need for their organization.  There are…
May 21, 2007

AZOGroup — tutorials about how to obtain grants

Chad Kimball of AZO Group contacted me by e‑mail to point out their online video tutorials about how to obtain grants from the government, foundations, and other places.  I took a quick run through the Grants.gov one, and it looks pretty good.…