Blog posts
Sisu Data
Sisu, an AI and ML solution for analyzing enterprise data, wanted to break out from the crowded data field by emerging as an “augmented analytics” tool. To do so, I took on the task of category creation by authoring a series of thought-leadership posts as part of the quarterly playbook I put together to support this goal. Below are a few of those posts:
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Mind the gap: Fixing a broken decision-making process
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Rethinking Data Literacy in 2021
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Augmented analytics unlocks the value of your data investments
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5 organizational habits CDOs must break to escape the analytics bottleneck
Mapbox
While at Mapbox, a location-data platform, I helped plan, edit, or write almost every blog between 2016-2020. Below is a collection of blogs from product launches, campaigns, and key moments in the company.
Customer highlights
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Strava launches gorgeous new outdoor maps
I ghost-wrote this post for the CEO, and it is part of a more extensive co-marketing campaign with Strava. Typically, Strava never provides written updates on new product features because, with 45 million users, it's difficult to make everyone happy. Beyond the press pick-up, all-time most-read story from Mapbox (over 500k views in two weeks), what truly marked success for me from this entire campaign was when Strava and their CEO chose to tweet and promote this blog post as their primary update to their users.
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Tracking vehicle performance in real time
This piece was important for our business development team, who wanted to show how we were making strides in automotive without being too technical. I interviewed the engineer, sourced imagery, and interviewed our Solutions Architecture team to write and edit this in full.
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Travel safe with GeoSure + Mapbox
An interview-style blog, this piece was part of a larger push in our travel vertical. By engaging with more niche travel companies, we were able to get fast, user-generated content that showed the power of our tools.
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Dispatch dashboards: How Myle Technologies is delivering Doctors and supplies in NYC
As we sought to break into a new vertical, I worked with the sales team to identify pay-as-you-go customers using our logistics tools in real-world scenarios. I helped source and edit this post.
How I Built It Series:
A test in letting developers tell their own stories, these posts are user-generated content that focuses on the developer and how they used Mapbox in ways we never expected. I spearheaded this content series despite hesitation, and it became one of the most recognized series for our developers.
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Bike ride with ARKit: How I built it
The first in the series, we found a new use for our Unity SDK, and I reached out to the developer to hear his story. This piece became a go-to example as Mapbox built out their Unity SDK,
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Santa Rosa fire map: How I built it
After promoting and working closely with this developer to create a map showing the affected homes in the Santa Rosa fire, I reached out to the developer to share his process on the Mapbox blog. This post combined created a user-generated tutorial on using our tools with a real-world news hook that caught the attention of many new users in the Bay Area.
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How I built it: Mapping every homeowner and renter with Tippecanoe and Studio
Seeing the success of combining both written and tutorial style in “How I Built It” I sourced and edited this post to demonstrate the data visualization capabilities of Mapbox.
Product launches and company news
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Style Components in Studio
For this launch, I worked closely with the maps team to draft, edit, and distribute this blog post.
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Atlas Search
As part of a multi-asset relaunch, I worked with the Atlas GM to draft, edit, and distribute this post.
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New tools for seamless pick-ups and drop-offs
This post is a combined launch blog for the navigation and geocoding teams of Mapbox. As smaller teams, I helped turn their internal updates into a new post and worked with both product leads to refine the post.
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New pricing Pay-as-you-go for each API and SDK
I spearheaded communication for this launch for the marketing team after carefully studying one of our competitor's failed pricing launches. Knowing this would be the first major pricing change for users in 6 years, I worked cross-functionally with sales, support, and customer success to deliver a clear message to our users.