I’m leaving Accenture and joining Best Buy.  Feels weird to say that because I’ve been at Best Buy for 4.5 years or so.  Up until now, or at least until Sept. 28, I’ve been an Accenture employee.  So the location isn’t so different, same campus, different building.  One major  difference is that this new role is not in recruiting.  It’s a customer facing role, not candidate facing (although in many cases I’d argue they are the same thing).  The cool part is, the recruiting genes haven’t been erased from my DNA.  I plan to not forget about my friends in recruiting at Accenture, at Best Buy, and in the industry as you guys are some of the most savvy, intelligent, critical thinking, early adopters of social technology out there.

So the new gig is  Social Media Manager.  This is not to be confused with the Sr Manager of Emerging Media Marketing for which we did the crowdsourcing experiment.

The title says Social Media Manager.  I think what it will really be about is figuring out where social technology makes sense as a way to solve a business problem, or do something better for our customers, employees or partners.  I think it’ll involve figuring out where social tech doesn’t make sense too.  I think the day to day work will be about creative problem solving, collaborating with the already incredible group of people at Best Buy, and facilitating social tech with those who are interested in jumping into the fray.  I know it’ll be fun.  I expect assumptions to be challenged, sacred cows to be sacrificed, buttons to be pushed, and omelettes to be eaten.

More to come on the new role, just wanted to officially announce it to my friends and colleagues.