mike manuelMike Manuel, a veteran Bay Area tech and digital PR pro who spent more than a decade at Voce Communications, has left the firm for a post at LinkedIn.

Manuel, an expert on social media PR and content marketing, said he will focus on those areas for LinkedIn's consumer marketing operation in a new post. He announced the move on LinkedIn's "Pulse" blogging and content platform.

Manuel, who has counseled Yahoo, Disney and Intel on social media efforts, was a senior manager after nearly 13 years at Voce, the tech firm founded by Miller/Shandwick execs that was acquired by Porter Novelli in 2011. He started out with Walt & Company in the late 1990s.

Nick Besbeas is VP of marketing and Scott Engelman heads consumer marketing for LinkedIn, which went public in 2011. Shannon Stubo is VP of corporate communications.