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April 8, 2007
And on the other side of the coin…Government’s biggest spenders are the least transparent, report finds
Last week I noted a report about how well the departments of Labor, Transportation, and VA were reporting their performance. Whereas I was seeing this as a half-full glass, FCW sees it quite differently, as their headline — Government’s biggest spenders are the least…
April 7, 2007
Excellence.Gov interviews now available online
I mentioned a while ago that the top 5 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards winners would be interviewed on FederalNewsRadio. Those interviews are now available online, here. The interviewees were:
Melvin Brown, Knowledge Services Network Program Manager Federal Aviation Administration
Ginger Price, My HealtheVet…
April 4, 2007
How I Find Grants — blog dedicated to identifying grant resources
I came across a new blog today, called How I Find Grants. Its author, Becky McCray, says:
I’m looking for grants for local city governments, nonprofit organizations, and community development. I keep tabs on grants from the government and from private foundations. I share what…
Transportation, Labor, and VA lead in performance
GovExec reports that the departments of Labor, Transportation, and Veterans Administration lead the way when it comes to transparency, public benefits and leadership evidenced in their performance and accountability reports, according to a report from the Mercatus Center at George Mason…
April 3, 2007
GSA, OPM delay HR business line solicitation, awards
While the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLOB) looks like it’s making great strides, the Human Resources Line of Business is taking a step back, reports FCW, as it intends to revisit an RFP in light of industry’s mountain of questions.…
GSA to seek commercial financial management providers
FCW popped out an interesting report last week: GSA plans to issue an RFP to solicit the private sector to act as a financial management service center, as part of the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLOB). According to Danny Harris,…
March 20, 2007
HandySoft crows about BizFlow at Labor for e‑grants
I see that HandySoft has released a statement about the Labor department’s use of their BizFlow suite for DOL’s E‑Grants system. Here at TCG, we’re big proponents of business process management software, so it’s encouraging to see a tool like BizFlow being fully…
March 19, 2007
Grants.gov and the NSF experience
Earlier this month, Science magazine’s ScienceCareers site had a nice article about Grants.gov, from the perspective of people from NSF, the developers of FastLane. If you’ve ever used FastLane, reading this article gives a good sense of how that system began and…
Excellence.Gov winners on FederalNewsRadio tomorrow!
The top 5 winners of the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards will be interviewed tomorrow at 11.30am on FederalNewsRadio (1050AM or listen on their Web site) by Mike Causey and Jane Norris, live from FOSE 2007! It will also replay later in the…
March 14, 2007
Tech Work from Home: A Survival Guide
Eric Spiegel is a fellow work-from-home type who founded a great company, XTS, which provides software for planning, managing and auditing Citrix and other virtualization platforms. He also writes a regular column for IT Management, the latest of which is all about the…