January 12, 2009

FDP Meeting notes (Day 1)

I finally made it to the FDP meeting today, just in time for the last presentation of the day, which is fortunate because I won’t be at the meeting tomorrow at all. (Clients want meetings; I consider myself fortunate!) Unfortunately Mark Bussow’s…
January 8, 2009

FDP Meeting on Monday and Tuesday

The Federal Demonstration Partnership is meeting on Monday and Tuesday at the National Academies in Washington, DC. Check the agenda for the complete details, and find out how to register here. And remember you can get all the grants management…

Grants.gov Stakeholders Meeting announced — 1/21/09 13:00–1400

Just got an e‑mail notice on this. Here’s the text: Please join us for the next Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, January 21, 2009, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT. This meeting will be a webcast only and registration is…
December 10, 2008

2009 Excellence.Gov Awards nomination period now open!

Nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 Excellence.Gov Awards, sponsored by ACT-IAC’s Collaboration & Transformation Shared Interest Group. This awards program is one of the most prestigious in the industry, with recognition being given to agencies with successful IT programs…
November 26, 2008

FDP meeting agenda announced

The Federal Demonstration Project’s January meeting agenda is now available, here.…

Next NGMA Meeting — January 14th

Just a note for your calendars: The next NGMA Training Luncheon is on January 14th. The speaker is to-be-announced but an interesting chat accompanied by great food (Maggiano’s, 5333 Wisconsin Ave NW) is hard to turn down. And you can also…
November 24, 2008

Getting Sabrent SATA Host Cards to Work

To support a large number of hard drives on our backup machine, we bought a Sabrent SATA 4 port PCI host card (SBT-SRD4).  Guess what?  It hangs with our 1TB drives.  In fact, it will hang with anything larger than 175 GB! Instead…
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…
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…