Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and Other Information about IGB
How Can I Find Out When My Story Is Published?
How Does IGB Decide Which Stories To Publish?
What Are 'Top' and 'Flop' Stories?
Why and How Should I Register on IGB?
Today, someone got blessed. Share your story, encourage others.
IGotBlessed.comtm (“IGB”) offers encouragement to an increasingly troubled world by providing worldwide access to everyday stories about how people like you were blessed. IGB stories are daily encouragement that is fresh, real, free and sometimes comes from sources you least expect…but isn’t that pretty much the way God likes to work? Got blessed today? Pass it on!
IGB believes true blessings are from God and not a result of our own efforts or cosmic luck. Blessings make for encouraging, uplifting, strengthening and/or instructive stories that are easy and fun to read, because submitters are not boastful or believe their good fortune was earned or even deserved.
Blessings can be small events like “Today, when the Sun hit my face I knew God was going to be with me throughout the day.”, or huge like “Today, I found out my cancer has disappeared. Praying for healing really works!!” Blessings can tell of hard lessons, the graceful dodging of a bullet, or a pure dose of peace, love and joy.
Two friends who got let go at the same from a major company and had to rely on each other’s positive stories and outlook on life to survive the daily drudgery of increasing unemployment, 300 competing applicants for every job, and job turn down after turn down. We decided to take our own personal IGB sharing practice and set it up online so everyone can be encouraged by the others’ stories.
It’s pretty simple, submit your daily stories and read and score others’. Stories are submitted by anyone and published to the site by IGB. IGB stories and can be accessed and shared via a variety of mediums, including Facebook, Twitter, cell phone texting and soon an iPhone mobile application. You can also register on IGB to comment on stories and create your own personal IGB profile.
IGB wants to grow God’s Kingdom and support you and your organization’s efforts by rewarding those who help us increase the reach and use of IGB. Let us know your ideas and stay tuned for new developments.
It’s easy to submit an IGB story, 1) click [Submit] on the top menu, 2) enter your nickname, gender and story category, and 3) write your short (300 character) story. Each story must begin with “Today” and end with “IGB”. Please check your spelling and avoid using inappropriate language and subject matter.
How Can I Find Out When My Story Is Published?
Click on [E-mail Notification] below your story and we'll send you an e-mail when it’s published.
Any IGB user can click [Moderate] on the top menu to review and vote on stories that have been submitted but not yet published to the site. Moderators can review one or all newly submitted stories and vote [Yes] or [No] if they beleive the story should be publish to the site. IGB tallies the votes for each story and considers them when decide whether to publish the stories.
All IGB users can score stories as either [Righteous] or [Self-Righteous] using the links below each story. Righteous stories are encouraging, uplifting, strengthening and/or instructive. Self-righteous stories are boastful giving the impression the submitter earned or deserved the blessing, etc. Scores for each story are tallied and used to help create lists of “Top” (most righteous) and “Flop” (least righteous) stories.
Registered IGB users can click on stories to enter their comments the same way you submit a story. Many find sharing comments on stories a good way to process and apply the stories with the help of other commentors.
How Does IGB Decide Which Stories To Publish?
IGB seeks to maximize the number of stories published, because we have no idea all the ways God can use a story to bless others. IGB does consider subject matter, moderator votes and the factors below when publishing stories:
1) Honor God, be authentic, thankful and humble (it ain’t all about you, afterall)
2) Explain how your blessing encouraged, uplifted, strengthened and/or instructed you
3) Keep your language and subject matter appropriate
4) Keep the churchy language to a minimum so everyone can understand and enjoy…just tell it like it is.
5) Check your spelling
What Are “Top” and “Flop” Stories?
Top stories have the most [Righteous] votes from other IGB users, and Flop stories have the most [Self Righteous] votes. Set a bookmark to visit our Top stories and see the best of IGB each day. Check out Flop stories for correction, instruction, etc.
Click the [Sharethis] link below and on the right of the story you want to share. Select how you would like to share the story from the list of options in the Sharethis pop up window.
Why and How Should I Register on IGB?
Anyone can register on IGB by clicking on [Sign Up] on the lower right menu, and providing a username, password, and their e-mail address and gender. Registered IGB users can comment on stories and create their own personal profile on IGB. Your personal information is automatically loaded when submitting stories.
The easiest way to contact IGB is via e-mail at: admin@IGotBlessed.com. We want to know what you think about your experience on IGB e.g. what works and what doesn’t. We also want to hear your ideas about how we could grow the reach and use of IGB. We have given IGB over to God and we know He likes to work through the faithful, so let us know your thoughts.