We've been watching the National Republican Congressional Committee's (NRCC) efforts on the modern campaign trail and have thus far been impressed.

On Monday, the NRCC will take another important step to help our Congressional candidates by leading by example in the modern world with the official launch of the next phase of its user-generated contest, "Your Direction."

The first phase of the "Your Direction" contest as TechRepublican contributor and NRCC modern media guru Josh Shultz wrote earlier in this space was to ask the Republican community to come up with a new slogan. With more than 13,000 entries and votes, the slogan which ultimately won is “Has the Democratic Congress Worked For You?”

The simple answer for me is no, the Democratic Congress has not worked for me. But, I'm a partisan operative so I might be a little bias.

But it turns out the American people agree. In fact, in a Reuters/Zogby poll released this past Wednesday, a mere 11 percent of Americans give Congress a passing grade. Pathetic.

So what are we going to do about this?

Well normally we'd all sit around and complain about Congress' lack of movement on the issues important to us. But not today. Thanks to the second phase of the NRCC's user-generated contest which asks users to take the slogan, create a YouTube video, and submit it to the NRCC via www.YourDirectionContest.com - there's something more effective and better we can do: We can participate in the national discussion.

For more details on the contest, check out Josh's killer YouTube video announcing the contest which already has been viewed more than 111K times on YouTube (viral much?):

You can also find more details on the contest at www.yourdirectioncontest.com.

Solid contest team NRCC. Watch this space for our submission in the very near future.