May 6, 2008

GMLOB alliances: The story updated

Back in March I posted about the various MOUs signed between agencies and GMLOB providers. Alice Stewart of Management Concepts has been researching this, and I’ve been very remiss in not updating the list. So I’m fixing that now! Additions are…
April 28, 2008

Grantium conference and news

Grantium’s got a lot on its plate these days! They have just announced their first North American G3 User Conference, to be held at the Hyatt in Bethesda, Maryland, from June 11th to 13th. You can go here to review the…
April 23, 2008

FBO.gov’s response to my bug report

FedBizOpps switched to a new system on April 1st and that system had some serious problems, which I reported to the FBO team and posted here on the blog. Last week I got a call from someone at FBO about this bug report and…
April 16, 2008

Shared services = standard services

Rant alert. Larry Neff is the Deputy CFO at DOT, which runs an FMLOB shared services center. In this FCW article he makes it clear what the mission of these government shared service centers is: …Neff said, agencies that require…

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…
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…