Jayson Manship

Tell Joe Biden What you Think of ObamaCare – 1-877-7-TELL-JOE

Jayson — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:12:10 +0000

Yesterday the Indy RNC development team launched it’s first campaign on GOP.com. We built out an application for the American public to tell Vice-President Joe Biden what they think about Health Care.

Call 1-877-7-TELL-JOE or fill out the form below to let VP Biden know what you think.

VP Biden Contributes Humor to Health Care Summit (brainz.org)
Biden Can Single-Handedly Run The Reconciliation Process: Parliamentarian Experts (VIDEO) (huffingtonpost.com)
Biden: How wonderful to have a job where I don’t do anything! (hotair.com)
Biden Rules (politicalwire.com)

I love Scotty’s Brewhouse

Jayson — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:18:35 +0000

If you haven’t already, I’d suggest you sign up for as many restaurant emails as possible. My birthday was Feb 21 and I think I’ve gained 10 pounds eating ‘free’ at these places.

Free burger at Red Robin
Free Blizzard at DQ (buy-one-get-one)
Free appetizer at TGI Fridays (with entree)
Free milkshake at Arby’s (with sandwich)
Free all-you-can-eat lunch at Bd’s Mongolian Grill
Free meal at Scotty’s Brewhouse (up to $10 and a free B-day Sundae)

I convinced Matt, Lisa and Brandon (team members at the RNC) to go to Scotty’s yesterday so I could use my free birthday coupon. Problem is…I couldn’t get it to print before we left. So we just enjoyed Scotty’s in the traditional fashion (I happily paid for my meal). But my coupon expires today, so here I am again (writing this while enjoying my ice cream sundae) at the Scotty’s in downtown. Love the atmosphere. Love the free wi-fi. Love the food.

Thanks Scotty for a great free lunch.

New members of the RNC New Media team

Jayson — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:31:18 +0000

This week we added two new members to the RNC New Media team in Indy.

Lisa Rusche is our Senior Graphic Designer and will be building out all graphics and branding. She’s a former college basketball star and has her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Ball State University.

Matt Turow is our Application Developer and will be responsible for coding in PHP, Javascript, Actionscript and HTML/CSS. He’s great at what he does and will be an awesome asset to the team.

My plan was to update this blog periodically with projects that we launch, but I’m guessing it will happen much more frequently with our newest team members. Watch out world!

Ask Me Anything with Formspring.me

Jayson — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:29:56 +0000

I set up a Formspring.me account. Use it to ask me anything.

Permanent Q&A Link: http://ask.jaysonmanship.com

The Week that Was – CPAC & An Evil Sickness

Jayson — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:04:50 +0000

I’ve been out of commission for the last week+. I spent 5 days in Washington, DC at the Conservative Political Action Conference (#CPAC10) and I came home sick and have been playing catch up ever since.

For those that don’t know, CPAC is the event of the year for conservatives. Speakers included Congressmen, Senators, a former Vice President, non-profit leaders and TV/Radio personalities. I had the pleasure to meet/interact with Senator Jim Demint from South Carolina, my Congressman Mike Pence from Indiana, author Eric Metaxas, actor/comedian/activist Stephen Baldwin and many other conservative leaders. It was energizing to be a small part of such a growing movement that I believe will change the landscape of our country for decades to come.

CPAC was great and my sickness was awful. Both are over now. I’ll be posting this week about some projects I’ve been working on for months that are finally going live.

CPAC Enters The Tea Party Era (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Video: Ten Minutes With Rep. Mike Pence (thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com)

Untangling The Meeting Mess – Tungle.Me

Jayson — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:31:02 +0000

I have long struggled with scheduling. My fiancé would be the first to tell you that I’m a fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants over-worker that needs someone or something in my life to maintain order. In my personal life I’m grateful for her to keep me on track. In my professional life I’ve found (finally) the solution. Tungle.me

Tungle is a free web-based calendar platform that merges multiple calendars into a single user interface that makes it super easy to schedule meetings with clients, co-workers and friends.

It took me all of 2 minutes to sign up for a Tungle account and integrate my URBaCS Google Calendar with my RNC Outlook Calendar. Then I created a simple subdomain redirect to make it even easier to share my schedule with others. If you face similar scheduling challenges, give Tungle a try.

Meet with me at meet.jaysonmanship.com.

Scheduling 101: Using Tungle.me for Committee Meetings and Student Appointments (profhacker.com)
Google Experimenting With Social Calendar Previews (readwriteweb.com)
A Sneak Peek At Google Calendar’s Upcoming Facelift (techcrunch.com)
The Top 10 Apps for Scheduling a Meeting Online (readwriteweb.com)
Find the Best Date That’ll Suit Everyone’s Schedule (labnol.org)
Tungle Makes Cross-Calendar Scheduling Simple [Calendars] (lifehacker.com)

Sign The Mount Vernon Statement

Jayson — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:08:17 +0000

Read The Mount Vernon Statement in it’s entirety at www.themountvernonstatement.com. Please note the site has been overloaded and may be down.

“The change we urgently need, a change consistent with the American ideal, is not movement away from but toward our founding principles. At this important time, we need a restatement of Constitutional conservatism grounded in the priceless principle of ordered liberty articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.”

I believe in:

Limited government
Individual liberty
Entrepreneurship and free enterprise
Opposing tyranny and advancing freedom
Defending family, neighborhood, community & faith

What about you?

Activtsts To Sign Mt. Vernon Statement: Conservative Manifesto Coming Soon (huffingtonpost.com)
Conservatives Unveil New Action Manifesto (usnews.com)

Learning Leadership From a Dancing Guy

Jayson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:17:06 +0000

Derek Sivers gives a great 3 minute leadership lesson about how a movement is made.

“The first follower transforms a lone nut into a leader.”

Derek Sivers is publishing some great stuff (37signals.com)

Christianity in the Classroom – A History Lesson?

Jayson — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:52:25 +0000

This blog post summarizes my thoughts about a recent New York Times article, How Christian Were the Founders? It’s a long article, but definitely worth the read.

There is a battle going on in the state of Texas that may shape the Church/State/Classroom relationship across the country for decades to come. Texas sets the educational guidelines for most of the states in the US. Their Board of Education sets the direction of the content that is printed in textbooks that are adopted by 46 other states. And right now there is a huge fight going on about how Christianity fits into the historical context of our country.

Christian Conservatives, myself included, believe that because our country was founded as “One Nation Under God” we should work to merge Christian beliefs into our educational system. We believe that the Bible and Mosaic law provide foundations for American law and therefore should be taught as such.

David Barton, leader of WallBuilders, continues the argument and suggests that the following points are derived directly from the Declaration of Independence, and therefore should be included in American history lessons.

There is a fixed moral law derived from God and nature.
There is a Creator.
The Creator gives to man certain unalienable rights.
Government exists primarily to protect God-given rights to every individual.
Below God-given rights and moral laws, government is directed by the consent of the governed.

Liberals will argue that the First Amendment clearly strong arms a separation between church and state, but I agree with David Barton. The founders were all Christians, and the purpose of the First Amendment was merely to ensure that no single Christian denomination be elevated to the role of state church.

I believe that every American is free to choose their own religion and their own God (or none at all). It’s not my place to tell you what to believe. But I think we would be overlooking a very important part of our history if we ignored the forefathers beliefs in our understanding of the framework of our democracy.

“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”

- William Penn

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How Christian Conservatives Are Getting Their Version Of History Into Classrooms (alan.com)
Texas Textbooks Battle Is Actually an American War (news.slashdot.org)
Chris Rodda: Glenn Beck’s new BFF — David Barton (huffingtonpost.com)
America: A Christian Heritage…to be Reclaimed (dakotavoice.com)
Do we really need a religious bill of rights? (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
Texas Schoolbooks – Changing History? (lockergnome.com)
Texas Prepares to Re-Write History (trueslant.com)

Feel Like Meetings are a Waste? Here’s Proof.

Jayson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:17:14 +0000

When I worked in corporate America I would always get frustrated with the time that my company wasted on meetings. For the most part, they were unproductive, pulled us away from what we needed to be doing and just ended up creating more overhead and protocols. We literally had meetings about meetings.

Meetordie.com has created a way to measure just how must is wasted in meetings. Enter your company name or industry, the number of people that will be attending and the length of the meeting and they’ll spit back an estimated waste cost. I’m not sure how scientific this is…but it’s definitely entertaining to at least get a rough idea of how much companies waste.

MEETorDIE Quantifies The Cost Of Wasteful Meetings (techcrunch.com)