Author: David Cassidy

January 13, 2006

NIH BCIG Book Club

The NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG) has organized a book club which is holding its first event on January 26 at 5.30pm at the NIH Clinical Center (Building 10), Medical Board Room (Room 2C116). The first event will be a discussion…

MySQL now on GSA Schedule

[Via Slashdot] Government buyers can now get MySQL on a GSA Schedule. Is this the first time this has happened, though? A quick look at the GSA Advantage site yields at least one or two results for MySQL database license vendors. Besides…
January 12, 2006

“You’ve got a grant!” phishing

A Tennessee woman has been the victim of a phishing scam in which she was told she’d won a government grant. Apparently she had applied for an SBA grant through Grants.gov and then received an e‑mail, evidently from another source, congratulating her…
January 10, 2006

OMB’s selling of e‑government to Congress

Jason Miller at GCN does a great job in reporting on OMB’s report to Congress which attempts to salvage funding for e‑gov projects. The crux of OMB’s problem is that Congress assigns money to each agency for specified purposes but has…

TCG’s David G. Cassidy Appointed to Thompson Federal Grants Management Handbook Advisory Board

This press release was just issued, about yours truly.  I just finished my first column for the newsletter, which will appear in February. Washington, DC, January 10, 2006: TCG announced today that David G. Cassidy, Vice President of the company, has…
December 1, 2005

foXpose — Tile your tabs!

I just installed Viamatic foXpose and my web browsing will never be the same again. With a single click, all of my open Firefox tabs are represented in thumbnails one one screen, enabling quick review and identification of interesting content.…

Kim Nelson, EPA CIO, going to Microsoft

Nelson to step down as EPA CIO. Kim’s been a vocal supporter of e‑government and a strong manager. This is a great move for her…and a great catch for Microsoft.…

Information sharing awards — Excellence.Gov 2006

Every year the eGov Shared Interest Group of the Industry Advisory Council (IAC), which is part of the American Council for Technology (ACT), organizes the Excellence.Gov Awards. Nominate your program now! The deadline has just been pushed back to December…
November 30, 2005

Silly SaaS

In his weekly InfoWorld column this week, Ephraim Schwartz invokes yet another acronym — SaaS, or Software as a Service. He discusses how products modeled after Salesforce.com are moving beyond the salesforce to invade other parts of the enterprise. But this…
November 29, 2005

Johns Hopkins accelerates Grants.gov plans

MIT participated in Grants.gov’s applicant system-to-system interface pilot, developing out their Coeus system, which is used by a great many grantees for their grants management needs. Steve Dowdy, MIT’s lead developer for this effort, is a very well-spoken advocate and critic of…