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May 7, 2010
The Insanity of Stop Loss Market Orders and Impact on Cloud Computing
Computers around the world are ready to sell, sell, sell! I don’t mean on-line stores, but stop loss orders. At first a stop loss order sounds great, if not a necessity: if you hold stock at $100 and you want to protect yourself,…
May 4, 2010
Knowledge management in the cloud exists in government right now
Quoting speakers at the recent Knowledge Management Conference, an article at FCW.com says that…
“The combination of knowledge management and a cloud computing environment is the likely catalyst for open government”
and…
“the questions are: Who owns information in the cloud and…
April 28, 2010
Grants.gov — back to normal
I just returned from a little vacation to find this announcement [M‑10–16] from OMB regarding Grants.gov, confirming what many already understood: agencies are instructed to resume using Grants.gov’s “Apply” functionality for all grant programs that are eligible.
This is not a surprise…
TCG Supports Intergovernmental Solutions Award Finalist
TCG is pleased to announced that one of the government programs that we support, the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business’s (BFELoB) MAX Federal Community, is a finalist for the American Council for Technology (ACT) 2010 Intergovernmental Solutions Awards. The…
April 1, 2010
We now have some sausages
There’s an old saying: “The butcher’s family is always the last one to get the sausages.” (There are variants dealing with shoes, haircuts, and low load mutual funds, but I think I may have made up at least one of those.) We…
March 31, 2010
High Performance Page Caching for Drupal 6.15
On one of our Drupal sites, we had an interesting problem. While the site happily handled up to 600 requests/second (on a 4 Gig, 4 CPU system) with the built-in Drupal page caching turned on, if an editor updated content on the…
Next NGP Meeting and Webcast: May 11th
I neglected to post earlier that the National Grants Partnership’s next meeting is on May 11th, 1.30pm‑3.00pm, on the usual BatChannel (http://acrobat.tcg.com/thengp). Registration is free but required for those attending in person at the Department of Education in Washington, DC,…
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…
FDP May 2010 registration now open
Get your hotel room while you can! Click on this link — http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Agenda.aspx?i=8f9fcf86-4805–4f7a-bab1-2dae2ae4d35c — to register.…
OMB Releases Updated Guidance on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Via our friends at the NGMA…
On March 22, 2010, the Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum outlining updated guidance on the Recovery Act. This Memorandum:
Highlights the steps Federal agencies must take to review data quality of recipient…