[OPLINTECH] Proposing #ARRA hashtag : and due diligence

[Stephen Hedges]

I have been thinking about a method for libraries to share questions, 
answers, comments, concerns, etc. about the second round of ARRA 
broadband stimulus funding. I propose that we use the OPLINTECH mailing 
list and include the hashtag #ARRA in any message dealing with broadband 
stimulus. Then messages can be retrieved easily by including "#ARRA" in 
your search terms when searching the list postings, either through 
http://oplin.org/techsearch or through Google ("#ARRA site:mail.oplin.org").

If you are not signed up on the OPLINTECH mailing list, you can either 
send messages to me and I will repost them, or you can sign up 
temporarily by going to http://mail.oplin.org/mailman/listinfo/oplintech.

I'm reposting Jim Mann's message about due diligence below, so it will 
now have the #ARRA hashtag attached. Also, I've had a question about 
what due diligence is. Basically, it's the second hurdle you have to 
jump before getting an ARRA grant. Your application must first pass 
through a basic review, and may then pass on to the "due diligence" 
phase during which the ARRA reviewers will ask more detailed questions 
about your application and request further background materials.

Stephen

On 1/23/10 9:53 AM, Mann, James H. wrote:
> Has anyone who applied for a stimulus grant had a contact or request for
> the Due Diligence phase?
>
> We have not heard anything at all since we filed our application, and
> during the ALA webinar Friday the speaker suggested that if you had not
> had a due diligence request by now that your application was not going
> to be approved.
>
> Just curious.
>
> Jim Mann
>
> Technology Coordinator
> Greene County Public Library
> 76 E. Market St.
> Xenia Ohio 45385
> (937)352-4000 x1210
> mailto: jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us <mailto:jmann at gcpl.lib.oh.us>

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