BFG has been hard at work with New Moon Of Savannah and Thinking Cap Inc. to get this year’s Geekend off the ground. We’re proud to announce an exciting lineup for the second year of the Geekend conference.

Social media guru Scott Stratten of UnMarketing will be kicking things off on Thursday, November 4th with the opening night keynote. Friday and Saturday, look for two full days of sessions covering topics from recruiting in the social age to html5 for the video game designer and which content management tool to use. We’ll be hearing from speakers from likes of Yahoo!, Blockbuster, Monster.com, Grooveshark, The Nielsen Company, and Lithium/Scout Labs just to name a few.

Saturday night, look for a closing night keynote that is sure to inspire geeks from all walks of life. Twitpic founder Noah Everett will be joining and helping us close things out with a bang.

For the full list of sessions and speakers, check out Geekend2010.com or stay tuned on Facebook and Twitter. We’ll be making announcements about afterparties and a few additions to the speaker lineup in the coming weeks.

Tickets are also now on sale through Eventbrite, with an early bird registration going until September 15.

We look forward to seeing you this November 4-6 at the second annual Geekend conference!

Geekend is the annual gathering of the geek tribe in Savannah. It’s a two and a half day interactive conference that brings together the brightest geeks, designers, developers, artists, and social media mavericks for a weekend filled with cutting edge speakers, fun-filled afterparties, and amazing networking opportunities.

Humongo Nation is an east coast tour brought to you by Humongo Agency.  The Humongo team, traveling in a decked out Ford Flex, began in Maine and will end in Miami as part of their rolling social media phenomenon. Along the way, Humongo has been meeting with some of the smartest and most innovative creatives that this side of the country has to offer. Yesterday, Humongo Nation made a tour stop in Savannah, making the rounds to visit SCAD and Paula Deen. They also met with BFG’s own Sloane Kelley discussing the beauty and benefits of a small agency while also diving into the interactive conference adventure known as Geekend. See it for yourself below!

The 3rd installment of the Creative Seed Initiative at the Trustees Theater with design guru DJ Stout was a success. Stout kept the audience in good spirits as he took them on a fun journey from his childhood to his decade and a half long tenure at Texas Monthly and now at Pentagram where he is a partner.

The Creative Seed Initiative’s next installment will be the showing of the film Died Young Stayed Pretty on March 4 at 7pm with director Eileen Yaghoobian in attendance for a Q&A.

More pix of event at BFG’s Flickr page.

You may have caught wind of a job opening we had last fall for an Assistant Content Manager. We took a different approach, asking people to Tweet us their applications. We ended up with some excellent responses and ultimately a very well-qualified employee.

Our Content Department is expanding and we’re once again on the hunt for an Assistant Content Manager. We’re looking for a content machine who’s social media savvy and ready to hit the ground running.

Again, we’d like you to Tweet your application to us. This has proven to be a great way for us to see how applicants think and that they understand Twitter and the social web. Feel free to take a look at the applications we received last fall and of course the Tweet that lead to a job with BFG.

Click here for a complete job description and let the creativity flow. You’ve got 140 characters.

[Update: The Tweets have begun! This is a collection of some favorites:

-@lala122 has Georgia on her mind.
-@rebeccacullers shows off some interactive skills with 9 reasons to pick her.
-@FilipSzy shows his sense of humor and introduces “Judge Onion.”
-@SethFMichalak shares an attention-grabbing portfolio piece.
-@KaceWrangler takes us inside his social media world via video.
-@A_Trev shares a social media rap video.
-@WilliamTheMac interviews himself in this entertaining video.
-Like our man Gary Vee, @SamTheButcher knows it’s all about passion and shows it off in a video.
-@StaciDale maps out the evolution of a social media warrior.]

BFG’s Sloane Kelley and Hal Thomas had the chance to talk Twitter and jobs with Jessica Kiss of WJCL and TheCoastalSource.com.

You can read more of Jessica’s reporting on this story here, and you can read the back story of BFG’s use of Twitter to hire their newest employee.

It sure is nice to get noticed. Today, the New York Post shouted out BFG’s unique way of seeking a new member of our Content Department. Recently we used Twitter as the primary tool to look for our new Assistant Content Manager. As the position requires someone who is savvy in the ways of social media we thought that Twitter was the perfect way to suss out the right candidate for the job. We were right.

“We didn’t want to do it in the traditional ‘send a cover letter and resume’ way,” says BFG content director Sloane Kelley. “We wanted to see how people think creatively, and seeing what they do with 140 characters and the various tools that are out there really gave us an interesting glimpse.”

We received a slew of great (and yes, not so great) tweets and eventually landed on the person that fit best. We like that our “social experiment” was noticed far and wide and is still being talked about.

Almost there! You can download the entire conference guide at Geekend!

Also, we’ve just announced the Geekend Block Party! November 7 @ 7pm.

Unleash The Geek!

Last night, New York-based graphic designer Charles Wilkin of Automatic Art & Design gave an inspirational and quite funny presentation about his rollercoaster ride from graphic design obscurity to creating award winning work for national brands complete with massive billboards looming over Times Square.

His talk centered on the many times over his career that he purposefully broke from the pack, broke the prescribed rules of design and how doing so propelled his vision and career into new and exciting creative and professional realms.

From his beginnings in Columbus, Ohio and Phoenix, Arizona where he got his first design jobs and learned the ropes of the business to the bright lights of New York City, where his career went into overdrive, Charles’ story definitley inspired to a room full of young designers and artists who are mostly at the beginning of their own artistic journeys.

This was the second presentation of the Creative Seed Initiative series which brings creatives to Savannah to share their work and stories with the students and professionals of the “creative coast.”

This is an article that ran in Bluffton Today shouting out our search for an Assistant Content Manager on Twitter and how BFG is successfully utilizing social media in a variety of innovative ways, internally and externally.

The Creative Seed Initiative, which last May brought rock star poster designers Aesthetic Apparatus to Savannah, is thrilled to bring New York City-based graphic designer Charles Wilkin, founder of internationally acclaimed Automatic Art and Design to Savannah to share his creative insights and design philosophy with the city’s creative community.

The Creative Seed lecture series is proudly presented in tandem by BFG Communications and The Savannah College of Art and Design and will take place at SCAD’s Arnold Hall, located at 1810 Bull Street on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, at 7pm. Admission is free and open to the public.

Charles Wilkin founded Automatic Art and Design in New York City in 1994 because he believed that, “personal expression is an essential and integral part of the design process.” Wilkin sought to successfully merge art, commerce and design on a more emotive level and has found great success in doing so. With this basic tenet guiding his hand, Automatic Art and Design has garnered a great deal of industry recognition.

Wilkin’s distinctive way of thinking about design and working with clients has helped Automatic Art and Design land an impressive array of work with companies such as Billabong, Burton Snowboards, Nixon watches, Best Buy, Capitol Records, Adobe, Mattel, Taco Bell, Knopf, Target and many more.

Wilkin’s work has been widely featured in a variety of national and international art and design media such as Computer Arts, How, Idea, Communications Arts and Metropolis.

In 2003, Wilkin was nominated for the prestigious National Communication Design award from the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City, which is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. His work is also in the permanent collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Hamburg, Germany.

Once again, Savannah creatives are in for a unique look behind the artistic curtain with this presentation by Charles Wilkin.