Category: Government Technology
April 16, 2008
NextGov — Collaborative technologies drive accountability, say international CIOs
Nice quote from Karen Evans about wikis in government, in this article while commenting on the use of OMB’s MAX Federal Community:
“There was nervousness because the comments are there for everyone to see, and may become a political commentary,” Evans…
April 11, 2008
Demo of MAX Federal Community and BFELoB discussion
Just got this from the GSA collaboration folks. If you’re a government person with an interest in online collaboration, this could be a great event!
The Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business (BFELoB) Task Force is hosting a free forum on its…
April 2, 2008
Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast — April 16th
Just got this notice (and entered it on the Grants Management Events Calendar):
Please join us for the next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will be a webcast only…
April 1, 2008
FBO.gov redesign creates frustration and angst
Government contractors’ favorite Web site, FedBizOpps.gov (known as FBO.gov), launched its redesign this week, and there are some significant problems with it. I just e‑mailed this list to the site maintainers:
1. New site registrants are sent their username AND password…
March 28, 2008
GPC Webcast available
So it says here:
The archived version of the GPC Webcast from March 18, 2008 is now available from our website at http://www.grants.gov/aboutgrants/grants_news.jsp. Once you are brought to HUD’s website, if the link does not take you to HUD’s directly to…
March 27, 2008
GPC Webcast available soon
I missed the GPC webcast last week due to another commitment, and didn’t know about the problem that was mentioned in the Grants.gov mailing list yesterday:
Yesterday’s Webcast was unable to be viewed outside of HUD due to an unfortunate and…
March 18, 2008
Big Dog: $10m of your money put to good use
Big Dog is a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This thing can traverse rough territory while carrying significant payloads, which could be very useful in situations such as battle, health…
March 14, 2008
Grants Management Events Calendar
For a while I’ve been frustrated that there’s no one single source of information about grants management events. Between Grants.gov, the Grants Policy Committee, GMLOB, NGMA, NGP, and FDP, there’s a lot going on! So I decided to make one, and just added…
March 11, 2008
Today’s NGP Meeting: Change of Webcast address
Due to technical difficulties, the address for the Webcast of today’s NGP meeting has been changed to http://www.thengp.org/meetings/20080311/Registration.htm. Register there ahead of the event to get all of the video goodness, courtesy of Ken Fang and the good folks at Altum.…
March 7, 2008
Heed the advice of Darren Ash!
Darren Ash joined the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as CIO a few months ago and had a guest column published in The Federal Times this week. You can read it here. (Disclosure: Darren was a client of ours at DOT.) In the column,…