Jon Monsarrat brings “General Electric and Citigroup Power” to Expose Cyberbullies

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

Posted May 17th, 2012:

"Cambridge, MA ( prsync ) May 17, 2013 - Jon Monsarrat is bring the same consulting services to fight cybercrime that he has used to advise top executives from General Electric and Citigroup. Through previous consulting jobs, he helped executives at GE Trade put together an import / export offset program to help them make sales worldwide. And for Citigroup he worked to design for them an "active bank system". Now he is bringing that power to expose cyberbullies, with a twist: two new patented technologies. The previous press release "Jon Monsarrat, $160 Million DotCom Icon, to Expose 100 Cyberbullies" dated May 8, 2013, was sent out with incorrect information. First, due to a miscommunication when the press release was being written, the venture is not part of Monsarrat's Hard Data Factory, and Rickland Powel l is not a contact. Instead the service is part of Monsarrat Consulting, his private consulting practice, and does not involve Rickland Powell. Second, due to a separate miscommunication, the press release stated that the new venture launched with partnerships. That was in error. The new venture does not launch with any partnerships."

Read the full press release here: http://prsync.com/monsarrat/jon-monsarrat-brings-general-electric-and-citigroup-power-to-expose-cyberbullies-542401/

Comments

[sairaali.livejournal.com]

I'm glad for the confirmation that Rickland wasn't actually involved or aware of any of this mess, although I'm still curious how on earth the person (jonmon? someone working for him?) who wrote the first pr screwed up that spectacularly.

You'd think with his $160 million he could afford a copy editor though. The errors are almost painful to read.

[clauclauclaudia]

I thought when I first read it that jonmon had copy-pasted his bio paragraph from a webpage and had copied too large a block, thereby including R's info from the page as well. It's still my working theory.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Those are the million-dollar computer skills and attention to detail he's touting!

[clauclauclaudia]

Well, it's just a theory. A bit of googling doesn't find any support for it. It certainly didn't come from here...

[jikamens.livejournal.com]

For the life of me, I cannot grasp the level of cluelessness and general incompetence required to allow a commercial web site to go live to the public with dummy blog postings and lorem ipsum pages.

[genesayssitdown.livejournal.com]

whoa, i haven't seen this one

[ron_newman]

But did he actually go live with this, as in advertise it anywhere? It doesn't seem to be his 'main' web site.

[jikamens.livejournal.com]

Anyone in the web publishing business with an ounce of sense knows that publicly accessible == "going live". If it's on the internet, and you don't want somebody to find it, they will. Until you're ready for the public to see it, you put IP address or password restrictions on it.

It's comparable to a new restaurant covering its windows with paper or soap while it's building out.

[ratheripped.livejournal.com]

He's used this domain before - there are cached posts from his lectures dating to 2009

This one is especially good:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pA5QMsL4uiUJ:monsarrat.net/johnny_monsarrat/2009/11/typical-personality-quirks.html+&cd=42&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

[burner-account.livejournal.com]

Letting someone with an ego problem run with a bad idea because it's too much emotional stress to talk them out of it
Indeed, Johnny! Indeed.

[audioboy.livejournal.com]

I did note that Rickland is listed on the Team page of JonMon's website: http://monsarrat.com/team.html

I haven't met Rickland more than a couple of times, but he's always been incredibly nice to me and I feel for him in the current situation with his wife's illness. I don't know what to make of his business relationship with JonMon, but as I don't know anything about it, I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. I try to believe the best of people until they prove me wrong. I just hope his connection doesn't come back to hurt him in some way.