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November 19, 2008
KTvid lives! Affordable mobile two-way video now available
Our friends at KT-Tech have just released KTvid, a really-very-cool mobile video technology aimed at consumers and businesses. Their press release says it best:
KT-Tech has accomplished what no other company in the wireless industry has achieved: enabling real-time, high-quality, person-to-person video…
November 13, 2008
NGP meeting/webcast on Tuesday!
One week, two major grants management meetings. Phewy!
The NGP is holding its bi-monthly meeting on Tuesday from 1.30pm‑3.00pm at the Department of Education in Washington, DC. Here’s the agenda. E‑mail TheNGP@AOL.com by noon on November 17th to register. You…
NGMA Training on Wednesday!
Just a reminder that the NGMA is holding its next training luncheon on Wednesday. Here are the details:
OMB Circular A‑102: The “Common Rule” and 2CFR Part 215 — Uniform Administrative Requirements:
Speaker: Janice Joyce & Jean Feldman, National Science Foundation
Program…
GMLOB on Presidential transition radar
I just saw this page from the GAO’s Presidential transition site, which includes the following:
In 2005, GAO recommended that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget ensure that efforts to develop common grant-reporting systems, such as through this…
November 11, 2008
Lines of Business: OMB’s Mistakes and How It Can Fix Them
Here is the fundamental challenge: Each new grant program passed by Congress creates a tiny new fiefdom in a government agency. This fiefdom directly gets funding and has the ability in many cases to set up its own management processes and systems.…
November 4, 2008
A Script to Automatically Update Clamav Packages
Clamav is an excellent open source multi-platform antivirus program that we use on our systems and projects. While clamav comes with utilities to update the antivirus definitions, there isn’t a utility to update the engine (instead the antivirus update gives a warning).…
October 15, 2008
Grants.gov Newsletter Fall 2008 now available
It’s here! The major headline is that Grants.gov has passed the 200,000 application mark for FY2008. Quite an achievement!…
GPC Webcast: October 28th, 2pm‑3.30pm
Jason Miller of Federal News Radio alerted me to this notice. Attendance in person is limited to 50 people but the webcast is open to all-comers. See the Grants Management Events Calendar for more details (iCal, HTML). According to the…
October 10, 2008
Two events you should know about
I just added these to the Grants Management Events Calendar (remember to subscribe!):
Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast
http://www.hhs.gov/grants/webcast/index.html
Please join us for the next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, October 15, 2008, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT. This meeting will…
September 23, 2008
100% of TCG Project Managers Now PMP Certified
TCG achieved yet another milestone this week: every single one of our project managers is now Project Management Professional (PMP) certified by the Project Management Institute. Nina Preuss crossed the line (in a good way) — good job, Nina! You can…