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Yahoo! Jellytalks is a monthly speaker series aimed at developers, designers and entrepreneurs. Each month a relevant speaker attends a Jelly (casual co-working space for collaborative work) and they are streamed live. Tune in online: http://jellytalks.yahoo.com/

Here’s how it works

1. We’ll invite an interesting speaker to a local Jelly, have ‘em talk for 30-45 minutes.
2. We’ll stream the talk live so Jellies around the world can tune in.
3. After the talk, anyone watching can ask the speaker questions via live chat.

Through a Meebo chat in page and a Twitter feed the global audience can ask questions and receive answers by using the Twitter hash tag i#jellytalks

Gary Vaynerchuk will talk about personal branding, consumer branding and business equity. He will touch on how he used social tools to engage his audience and how you can do the same from yourself or your business.
March 19th, 2010 – 2:30pm EST

More on the speaker:
Gary Vaynerchuk is a New York Times bestselling author and American businessman who was born in Belarus and immigrated to the United States as a young child. Gary’s entrepreneurial instincts took over at a young age, when he owned a franchise of neighborhood lemonade stands and made $1,000 a weekend selling baseball cards. Much to his dismay, his father Sasha pulled Gary into the family business, a local liquor store called Shopper’s Discount Liquors. Before long, Gary recognized that consumers collected rare wines just like people collected baseball cards, and he was off to the races. Gary transformed himself into a wine expert, rebranded the store as Wine Library, launched a retail website in 1997, and by 2008 he had raised annual revenue from $4 million to $60 million. In 2006 Gary achieved one of his life-long goals when he was caricatured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal in an article about online wine sales.