Yearly Archives: 2011

APHA’s Policy Innovation Contest

The American Public Health Association recently launched a competition that gives health departments the opportunity to improve their capacity around health inequality policies. What’s up for grabs? Certainly nothing to yawn at (especially in this economic climate): According to the APHA site announcing the policy innovation contest: Between five and eight health departments will receiveRead… Read more »

Hints for Government Contracting Results

Search out Federal Bids You must put forth the time to identify the projects or orders, I encourage using a service along the lines of BidSpeed to automate wherever possible. Go after projects that are expiring and emerging for renewal. It is valid that many RFQ’s these days are already highly determined by one company,Read… Read more »

A few of my favorite things

As a gift to you, here are a few of my favorite accessibility resources: Accessibility Resource Center: a list of company websites with links to their product and services accessibility information Quick Links: quick and easy pre-packaged Section 508 documentation for a number of standard EIT deliverables, for example solicitation language and guidance to helpRead… Read more »

MICROLINK LAUNCHES GRASP – A GOVERNMENT RECORDS ASSESSMENT & STRATEGIC PLANNING OFFERING

Vienna, Virginia-December 20th, 2011– MicroLink, a HP, Autonomy Company and an award-winning partner of Microsoft, announces the addition of its Government Records Assessment & Strategic Planning (GRASP) offering to its Information Governance services. GRASP was developed by MicroLink as a response to President Obama’s records management initiative for all federal agencies in 120 days toRead… Read more »

Recovering from the Recovery Act, Part 3

President Obama created a new oversight board in June 2011 as part of his new Campaign to Cut Government Waste. He directed it to report to him in December on ways to improve accountability, based on lessons from the implementation of the Recovery Act. That report is now out. President Obama created the Government AccountabilityRead… Read more »

This is not a review.

This is not a review. This is a commentary on modern life. I am currently on leave for the day. Long drawn out reasons – not Xmas related or shopping related, though I am using it to whip through HMRC related paperwork, tidy the house and generally make room for the tree which rather embarrassinglyRead… Read more »

Trends on Tuesday: 20 Million Scanned QR Codes

According to Internet marketing research company comScore, 20.1 million mobile phone owners in the U.S. used their device to scan a QR code in October. More from comScore. QR codes are two-dimensional codes that are scanned with a smartphone, connecting individuals to additional online content or information. More on QR codes in the Mobile GovRead… Read more »

Consolidated Appropriations Act leaves DHS state and local grants in jeopardy

Deltek Evan Halperin reports. On December 17, the U.S. Senate passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act following passage in the House on Friday, December 16. The bill, which does come with benefits including funding the federal government for fiscal year 2012, would drastically cut funding of state and local grants from the Department of Homeland Security.Read… Read more »