Grants'gov Updates

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Grants.gov Updates

• 5 May 2008
• Kristie Froman
• Harvard Medical School

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New features on grants.gov
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Compatibility
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How to check your OS
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An ounce of insurance

• Work with your university, school or department
  IT reps to get all computers up to date with OS
  updates, browser updates and PureEdge and Adobe
  8.1.2
• Check browser settings to ensure it opens Adobe
  8.1.2 by default
• Ask everyone to check their home computers as
  well
• Include a statement in emails to subcontractors
  to make it easy for them to get the right
  software. Extracted budgets can corrupt the whole
  package!

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Adobe version control
http//www.grants.gov/applicants/AdobeVersioningTe
stOnly.jsp
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Transition to Adobe
Thank you to Michael Pellegrino, Grants.gov
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The Look of Adobe
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Submitting in Adobe
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Who is keeping score?
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Housekeeping Tips

• Lock your DUNS they can be deleted by DB
• Update your CCR account yearly do so a few weeks
  prior to expiration
• Update your ORCA yearly
• Dont ignore those other online submission
  applications they require registrations too
• Troll for the technical manuals, such as NIHs
  Notes, Tips and Validations guide

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Thoughts? Questions? Stories?