At a wedding in around 1983
Dave Jaffer is a writer, educator, and social/digital media problem solver based in Toronto, Canada.
If his life were a game of Jeopardy! his seven dream categories would be:
- Grammar
- Criminally Underwatched and Then Canceled Television Shows
- Career Suicide
- Sports Statistics
- Impromptu Kitchen Wizardry
- “Tough But Fair”
- Black Jeans and Black Boots
Dave’s writing has appeared in or at: Hour Magazine, the Ottawa XPress, BangBang, Spinner, Noisecreep, FFWD Weekly, the Huffington Post, Toronto Standard, Citeeze Montréal, and The Barnstormer.
Dave has worked in social/digital for Postoneforty, All Beef Media, Unit PR, and Entrinsic (clients: Coca-Cola, Rogers On-Demand, Social Media Week Toronto) and taught courses in Social Media Marketing and Community Management at George Brown College in Toronto.
As a copywriter, his skills have been bought and paid for by C2-MTL, Tourism Montréal, M For Montréal, Maple Music, Roadrunner Records, m0851, and many others. As a consultant, he’s offered insight to the Association of Internet Marketing and Sales, Tembo Consulting, Six Shooter Records, and countless individual artists and musicians. Additionally, he has served as a panelist at SMWTO, was a member of the inaugural editorial team for C2-MTL, and is a Polaris Music Prize jurist and a judge for the Canadian Online Publishing Awards.
Dave is currently looking for new opportunities and adventures.
Feel free to connect with/stalk him:
…on Facebook.
…on Twitter.
…on LinkedIn.
…on Tumblr.
…on Pinterest.
…on Flickr.
[Also, if you didn't get the Jeopardy! thing, it's a Microserfs reference.]