Press & Media
Facebook’s Silent Crisis: How Hacks, Selfie Lockouts, Ad Scams & Opaque Bans Are Hurting Users & Businesses
Original Article Medium Substack Facebook was once seen as a neutral space to connect with friends, family, and customers; today, it has become an unstable, often hostile system where ordinary users, small businesses, and even long-time advertisers can lose everything overnight, with little hope of appeal. This growing pattern of hacks, faulty “selfie” checks, opaque bans, and ad fraud is no longer a series of isolated glitches — it looks like a systemic failure of accountability. Locked out by selfie systems In recent years, Facebook has leaned heavily on “video selfie” and ID verification systems that often malfunction, misread faces, or simply never complete the review. Users report...
ALB Games Company Features Video Pitch Deck
ALB Games Company features a pitch deck describing the company, based on a PowerPoint and PDF presentation. The presentation includes slides which feature the Big Opportunity, Our Solution, How It Works, Our Products, Production to Date, Our Target Markets, Competitive Edge, Business Model, the Power of a Hit Game, Financial Highlights, Use of Funds, The Team, and the Closing: Why Invest. The video is produced by Changemakers Productions, a division of Changemakers Publishing which features books on self-help, memoirs, self-publishing, social issues, criminal justice. https://youtu.be/_GVZ9EajgZ4?feature=shared
Game Designer Uses Dreams to Create Games; Article about Using Dreams for Creative Ideas
Original Article Medium Substack Dreams have turned into a way to create new games, as game designer and author Gini Graham Scott has discovered. After creating over 70 games for a games company, ALB Games in Little Rock, Arkansas, Scott began having dreams about new games. She saw the cards and ways to play the games, and after writing down what the dreams told her, she created cards, printed them out, wrote up the rules, and got the games ready for play testing. Then, after successfully testing them, the games were published –almost exactly as Scott dreamed them. They are Numbers Up, a game about adding up positive and negative numbers to take tricks, and All Things Are Possible, featuring...
Articles Feature a New Way to Help Tesla Overcome Its Current Problems
What can Tesla do to improve its image and get more sales? That's what an article on Medium and Substack has suggested, after a few bad weeks for Tesla, as a result of the negative public reaction to Elon Musk, along with growing competition from other car manufacturers. But there's hope for creating more appeal for a Tesla. There's a new song, "I Love My Tesla," designed to appeal to new markets. Also, there's a card game in a book called Car Go!, which features the benefits of the Tesla, along with other car companies. Players attempt to create sets of cards featuring...
Gini Graham Scott
Gini has published over 50 books with major publishers and over 200 books through her company, Changemakers Publishing.
She has written and executive-produced over 18 feature films and documentaries.
Her specialties include business, self-help, social trends, work relationships, leisure, popular culture, criminal justice, children’s picture books, and writing screenplays.
Paul Brakke
Paul Brakke is a scientist based in Central Arkansas.
He became interested in studying the criminal justice system when his life was turned upside down after his wife was falsely accused of aggravated assault.
He has previously told his wife’s story, along with a critique of the criminal justice system, in American Justice?, published in April 2016 by TouchPoint press.
Since he began research on that book in 2010, he has become an expert on the criminal justice system, and has authored 5 books: The Costly U.S. Prison system, Fixing the U.S. Criminal Justice System, The Price of Justice in America, Cops Aren’t Such Bad Guys, and The Great National Divides.