Category: Government Technology
March 7, 2008
NGP meeting: March 11
Judging on several of my recent posts, I think I’ve become the grants community’s social secretary! Here’s another one for your diaries: The National Grants Partnership (NGP) meeting is on March 11th at the Department of Education in Washington, DC. You…
March 6, 2008
2007 ExcellenceGov Awards White Paper released!
We finally completed the white paper documenting the lessons learned by the top five winners of last year’s Excellence.Gov Awards, and you can grab it here. The theme in 2007 was Lessons Learned to Leverage Technology to Enhance Collaboration. There…
Register for the 2008 Excellence.Gov Awards luncheon!
Registration is now open for the annual Excellence.Gov Awards luncheon, where all 20 of the award winners (list here) will be honored. The theme this year is “Improving Organizational Performance Using Information Technology”. (Disclosure: I’m the co-chair of the awards…
March 3, 2008
GMLOB alliances: The story so far
There has been much chattering and buzz about the fact that OMB should be providing GMLOB MOU feedback to agencies soon…if not having done so already. If you recall, agencies had to submit Memoranda of Understanding with GMLOB providers to…
February 20, 2008
2008 Excellence.Gov Top 20 announced
ACT-IAC released the list of the 2008 Excellence.Gov Awards Top 20 winners last night. I’m the co-chair of the awards this year and, as is true every year, competition was very difficult. The theme this year is “Improving Organizational Performance…
February 11, 2008
Grants.gov compatible with Adobe Reader 8.1.2
Just a tidbit this morning: Grants.gov has announced that they have tested Adobe Reader 8.1.2 with their forms and submission process, and all is well. So feel free to upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader (after checking with your…
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…
January 31, 2008
Government collaboration nirvana!
If you haven’t already checked out the COLAB wiki, you are a horrible individual and should be ashamed of yourself. Well, okay, maybe you should not feel quite so guilty about it but don’t delay in scooting over there to check…
January 30, 2008
FedRegister notice on SF424 R&R changes coming
On the Grants.gov mailing list yesterday, Vince Sprouls noted that:
“The SF424 R&R changes are going forward for the 60-day Notice publication this week and hopefully will be published within about a week after that.”
These changes primarily relate to additional data fields…
January 29, 2008
Another great example of online collaboration in government
In yesterday’s Washington Post, Stephen Barr’s Federal Diary column profiled OMB’s MAX Federal Community, a wiki that’s being used throughout government to speed decision-making and help agencies work across organizational boundaries. I love this stuff, primarily because technology is not the object…