krista canfieldKrista Canfield, who spent six years at LinkedIn rising to lead PR for its mobile products, has packed her bags for social travel planning company Gogobot as VP of communications.

Canfield, who cultivated LinkedIn's program for journalists and departed this month as senior manager of corporate communications, saw the business networking platform's rise from a 200-staffer start-up to its current post-IPO juggernaut of 6,000 employees and 330M users.

Gogobot, based in Menlo Park, is billed as the "go-to place for places to go" and lets users search for restaurants, activities and lodging through its website and app. It unveiled a new app in May that produces lists of events and activities in six major cities and locked up a $20M funding round in November backed by vacation rental portal HomeAway.

Canfield, a former journalist who moved to tech PR with Horn Group in the mid-2000s, wrote about her new position in a blog post on LinkedIn.