"Unofficial OMB BLOG" Tracks Key Issues for Agencies and IT Contractors

The "Unofficial OMB BLOG" condenses news about the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) into a quick reference list for agency executives and information technology (IT) contractors. It's available on the Internet by hitting the "BLOG BUTTON" at the P2C2 Group's web site.

(PRWEB) November 8, 2004 -- U.S. agencies and contractors can now hit the "BLOG BUTTON" for news and reminders about what is happening at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). That is critical because slip-ups can cost public embarrassment and big money.

Agencies and contractors must pay attention to OMB, the powerful agency in the Executive Office of the President, because it oversees the distribution of the federal budget, procurement policy, green lights for e-Government, and reports cards about program performance.

The "BLOG BUTTON" links to free information about OMB news, and it helps the federal sector monitor OMB news quickly and easily. "This is an experiment in public sector blogging," said Jim Kendrick, president of the P2C2 Group, Inc., a management consulting firm specializing in e-Government and IT capital investments. Managers in agencies and contracting firms are constantly bombarded with new information about critical requirements, priorities, and regulatory issues. There needs to be a way to boil down critical information to a manageable list that can be reviewed in minutes rather than hours.

Rather than using free-lance bloggers, the "Unofficial OMB BLOG" relies on credible news sources identified through Google News searches. This gives the BLOG an independent perspective so the news and listings can be more robust than an in-house listing by the federal public affairs people.

"We see this as an important addition to the emergence of e-Government," Kendrick said. "Automated news searches make the strategy feasible. But the real value-added contribution we make is to save time for readers, by sifting through hundreds of search results to identify the most critical OMB actions that should be on everyone's Read List. The news is screened for topics important to information technology and e-Government."

The "BLOG BUTTON" is on the P2C2 Group's web page for Articles, http://www.p2c2group.com/articles.htm. The consulting firm also publishes the FEDERAL SECTOR REPORT, a free newsletter for the public sector. Readers may sign up for subscriptions on the same web page.

The P2C2 Group, Inc., is based in Kensington, MD, a suburb of the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The consulting firm works on the business side of e-Government and information technology. Services enable agency officials to win approval for their new initiatives, budgets, acquisitions, and management plans. Examples of deliverables include capital investment plans, budgets, OMB Exhibit 300 business cases, financial models, cost-benefit analysis, statements of work, risk management plans, information security programs, reports to oversight agencies, and survey research. The consultants have significant experience in supporting agency executives, Chief Information Officers, procurement officers, program managers, and leaders in the private sector.

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