The Savannah area was teeming with geeks last weekend, but there’s a good chance that if you weren’t on Twitter, you didn’t even know! Here’s some of our favorite tweets from Geekend 2010.

Swag was in the highest demand at Geekend, the most coveted was a woven monkey cap created as a promotional item for Geekend sponsor, MailChimp. When it was revealed that several were hidden in the lobby, many geeks were left wanting and wandering around aimlessly. Those who were successful were wise to hide their geek treasure with all due haste.

Highlights of this event include a Silent Auction, a luncheon (featuring our famous shrimp and chicken salads), a White Elephant Sale (Thursday only), book sale, handmade jewelry, homemade preserves and jams, and a raffle to win an elegant candlelight dinner for twelve in the historic Green-Meldrim House!

Cost: free

More Info: call 231.8911 or 308.6471

Photography By: Racheal Carman

Photos by: Rhiannon S. Modzelewski

Photographed by: Mindee Stokes

Photographed by: Mindee Stokes

South magazine: As a self-proclaimed “Jedi 4 soc media,” tell us a little about what it is you do on a day-to-day basis?

Scott Stratten: The Jedi title is a little self-depreciating humor. We all take ourselves a little too seriously. My day varies between consulting, speaking engagements and hanging out with my son. But no matter what’s on the schedule, checking into Twitter happens dozens of times a day.

SM: You have more than 62,000 people following you on Twitter, what is the motivation behind your daily tweets?

SS: I really do believe that business is built on relationships, so I make building them my business. Twitter is a great place to start the relationship, discover interesting people and help one another.

Photography By: Racheal Carman

Saturday night’s 2010 Savannah Film Fest kicked off with a bang, as nearly every available seat at the approximately 1,100 capacity Trustees Theater on Broughton Street was filled with ticket-holders. All were eagerly awaiting the opening screening, Darren Aronofsky’s BLACK SWAN.

A dark and ominous psychological thriller set in the world of professional ballet, the film, starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey and the reliably great Frenchman Vincent Cassell, did not disappoint, repeatedly eliciting gasps, shrieks and laughter from the (at times far too pleased with itself) crowd throughout its compact hour and forty-three minutes. Aronofsky, known best for his recent mainstream success with the bittersweet drama THE WRESTLER and to some for a visionary approach and tendency towards heavy-handed stylism in his disturbing earlier features such as PI and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, returns to those more familiar stomping grounds with this unnerving tale of mental illness and the duality of self.

ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover is coming to Savannah to surprise one lucky family! Want to know how you can get involved in this Extreme Home Makeover build? Here’s your chance!

You could be involved in the Extreme Makeover Savannah build from November 13 – 18, 2010! This will also kick-off the Extreme Makeover Savannah Food Drive! Our goal is to collect 150 tons of food for America’s Second Harvest Food Bank.

Cost: One non-perishable food item.

More Info: For more information, visit http://www.extrememakeoversavannah.com/pep-rally-2/