From 77acb319e5d167d8e54e01531b60b449da684ad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Catherine Paganini <74001907+CathPag@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:36:21 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Create announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md

---
 .../announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md     | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 linkerd.io/content/blog/announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md

diff --git a/linkerd.io/content/blog/announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md b/linkerd.io/content/blog/announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4770751a9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linkerd.io/content/blog/announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+---
+title: Announcing September's Linkerd Hero
+tags:
+  - Community
+  - Hero
+description: Read the latest blog posts covering the Linkerd service mesh, from technical tutorials to announcements to what’s next on the roadmap.
+keywords: [Hero]
+---
+
+# Announcing September's Linkerd Hero
+
+We are excited to announce this month's Linkerd Hero: Cameron Boulton.
+Congrats, Cameron! 
+
+
+## What are Linkerd Heroes?
+
+Linkerd Heroes are community members who best represent the spirit of
+the Linkerd community. Whether it's helping others, answering questions,
+sharing their successes (and failures!) with the world at large, or
+contributing code or docs, Linkerd Heroes are instrumental in making the
+Linkerd community the amazing place it is today.
+
+
+## Congrats, Cameron!
+
+This month's hero is
+[Cameron Boulton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronboulton/).
+Cameron did a fantastic investigation
+on the Datadog and Linkerd trace integrations. Thanks to his contribution,
+community members can more easily configure Linkerd proxy trace exports to
+external collectors using the improved jaeger injector plugin, regardless
+of the collector and exporter protocol. Thank you, Cameron, for making
+future Datadog and Linkerd users' lives easier! 
+
+
+## Nominate next month's Linkerd Hero
+
+Linkerd Heroes take many forms. Perhaps someone has answered your or the
+community’s pressing questions on Slack. Maybe you've read a blog post or
+watched a conference talk that helped spur your decision-making process or
+advance your Linkerd implementation. Or perhaps someone contributed an
+awesome Linkerd feature or bugfix that has made your life a lot easier.
+Who is _your_ Linkerd Hero?
+[Submit your nomination for next month's hero here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNv--UnbbZSzW7J3SbREIMI-HaooyX9im8yLIGB7M_LKT_Fw/viewform?usp=sf_link)!
+
+For those who nominated someone, thank you for participating!

From 840af2607e219bfd27213f659025f0e3d19dc2a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Catherine Paganini <74001907+CathPag@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:45:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md

---
 linkerd.io/content/blog/announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/linkerd.io/content/blog/announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md b/linkerd.io/content/blog/announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md
index 4770751a9c..3f559c435e 100644
--- a/linkerd.io/content/blog/announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md
+++ b/linkerd.io/content/blog/announcing-septembers-linkerd-hero.md
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ external collectors using the improved jaeger injector plugin, regardless
 of the collector and exporter protocol. Thank you, Cameron, for making
 future Datadog and Linkerd users' lives easier! 
 
+[Add image here]
 
 ## Nominate next month's Linkerd Hero