SILVER SPRING, MD: Epok has selected the Strategic Communications Group as its AOR.  As part of an integrated social media and business development campaign, Strategic will provide messaging, positioning, and content development services for a set of social media programs, including executive blog development and social network engagement.  Strategic and Epok have also signed a lead referral agreement in which the agency will leverage contacts in its network to identify new business opportunities for Epok.

SAN FRANCISCO: Burditch Marketing Communications opened an office in San Francisco. This office will directly service BMC’s existing clients in northern California including Napa Valley and Paso Robles as well as serve national and international PR needs for growing luxury brands and services in the San Francisco Bay Area.

NEW YORK:  SGI selected FusionPR to support its national PR efforts. The agency will position SGI as a pioneer and market leader in the high performance computing space.

LOS ANGELES:  The Bohle Company has added Emergent Game Technologies and NDOORS Interactive to its roster. Emergent Game Technologies’ flagship product, the Gamebryo development engine, is used in the creation of games for PCs, Playstation3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii.  NDOORS’ online games include “Luminary: Rise of the Goonzu” and the time traveling strategic role-playing game “Time N Tales.”

SAN FRANCISCO: Citigate Cunningham has won two emerging tech clients: SynthaSite and Acquia. The agency will work to increase brand awareness for each company and will provide media relations.

SAN FRANCISCO: Peppercom hired Sandy Pfaff as director in the San Francisco office.  Pfaff will be responsible for overall strategy and management of several existing accounts as well as business development and operational support. She will report to Ann Barlow, president of Peppercom West Coast.  Pfaff was previously with Ketchum West for more than 10 years, most recently as SVP for business development on the West Coast.

SAN FRANCISCO: London-based Mulberry Marketing Communications is opening a new office in San Francisco to improve its media outreach for its North American clients, and to focus on the development of its technology PR practice.  The new office is due to open September 2 and will be headed by Dan Brown, currently an account director at Mulberry London.

TORONTO: Hill & Knowlton hired Collin Douma to join its digital team in Toronto. Prior to joining H&K, Douma was a blogger, and social media strategist and consultant.

SAN FRANCISCO: Citigate Cunningham appointed Gary Thompson as chairman of the agency, heading up the management team.  Thompson joined Citigate Cunningham from Schwartz Communications where he was EVP and GM of the San Francisco office.

SAN FRANCISCO: Interwoven recently hired Waggener Edstrom to increase global awareness and drive adoption of the brand. Interwoven is a content management solutions company with a global client base.