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January 29, 2007
Annual CTO Forum — 2/7/07, Arlington, VA
I just saw this announcement and thought a few readers may be interested in the topic of data sharing and interoperability.…
January 26, 2007
Excellence.Gov luncheon registration now open!
ACT/IAC just issued this announcement. I’m looking forward to seeing you all at the awards!
2007 Excellence.Gov Awards Ceremony 2/20/07 — Keynote from Clay Johnson III of OMB — Registration now open!
The 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards finalists will be recognized…
January 24, 2007
Misnomer of the week: E‑gov = shutting down old systems
Wyatt Kash at GCN has a message for OMB: by shutting down legacy e‑gov systems, “the administration can strengthen its case for cross-agency funding of these, and future, e‑government projects.”
Grants.gov is perhaps the best example of an e‑government initiative that…
January 19, 2007
MS Office Hidden Data Removal tool
Matt Eliot, a colleague here at TCG, suggested this tool in response to my complaints of people leaving comments and tracked changes in Word documents. Rich Renomeron also told me that it works in all Office programs, not just Word. Unfortunately…
January 16, 2007
Excellence.Gov Awards top 5 decided / speaker announcement soon!
This morning the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards judges settled on the top 5 award winners. I can’t tell you who they are — for that you’ll need to attend the February 20 lunch at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington DC (registration details are…
US Senate ethics bill amendments push for net-based transparency
Several amendments to the Senate’s Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act (S. 1) are pushing for more proceedings, video, transcripts, reports, and other Congressional activities to be made available on the Web, so FCW reports. This is part of the Democrat’s…
January 15, 2007
Grants.gov’s Windows limitation on Slashdot
I see that Grants.gov’s Windows limitation has been mentioned on Slashdot today. Odd that it should appear now, when Grants.gov’s on the road to making it a non-issue by April, but also interesting to see tech-ire in the wild!…
January 14, 2007
Grantsfire — grant announcements for the rest of the world
The guys over at Solpath have released a test version of a new project called Granstsfire, which they describe as
an aggregator of syndicated grants information. It enables grantseekers and funders to share and search for information on grant announcements in real…
January 9, 2007
2007 Excellence.Gov Awards finalists announced
We just announced the finalists for the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards! The competition was stiff this year, with more nominations than any prior year and many deserving projects. On February 20 (11.30am — 2pm, Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington DC), we’ll…
January 2, 2007
Government Futures
Government Futures is a relatively new site intends to create dialog and encourage participation in modernizing government. Founded by Bruce McConnell and Margaret Anderson, both well-known faces in DC’s IT circles, the site features micropolls, blogs, and white papers on issues…