Jinal Shah is a blogger and digital marketing professional focused on social media, content strategy and product marketing. She is currently a lead digital strategist at Electric Artists for American Express OPEN, David’s Bridal and Food Network.
Prior to Electric Artists, Jinal was handpicked by CEO of Advanta Bank Corp. to join their Innovation Team. At Advanta, she launched Ideablob.com – the very first social network ever created by a credit-card company. Ideablob.com launched at DEMO 2007 and won the People’s Choice Award.
Jinal co-founded Dsplaced.com, a digital story-telling experiment, in Nov 2008. Dsplaced has received tremendous press from blogs and traditional outlets such as Verve Magazine & MTV Iggy Pop. (Download the first issue of Dsplaced Magazine here.)
Jinal holds a B.A in Magazine Journalism from Temple University, Philadelphia. She is also a published fiction author. (The Unexpected Gift, 1999, Mumbai, India) and a StartingBloc Fellow. (Institute for Social Innovation NY 2010)
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OTHER RANDOM THINGS:
I live with my husband (www.ritheshmenon.com) and with not nearly enough room for my books. Oh and I do not have a large shoe collection. In fact, I only find myself shopping for shoes when I break or lose a pair. Sorry – being a girl and a pseudo New Yorker, I had to make that standard comment about shoes.
I love my Kindle.
I think faster than I can write and so I end up eating words. My grammar and sentence construction skills are actually pretty rad. 
