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A couple weeks ago, the Golden State Warriors sent out a press release asking for social journalist (bloggers and tweeters) to take part in their Warriors Media Day. the application process involved submitting your website/twitter account as well as a “140 character blurb” explaining why you should be one of the few to interact with the team along with the traditional media journalists (tv/newspaper/etc)

I thought it was an amazing opportunity and I submitted my website along with my blurb: “i’m a blogger & avid user of twitter w/ a deep affinity for bay area sports. i strive to be as interactive w/ fans/sports writer as possible”

Unfortunately, I wasn’t one of the 10 people selected to participate. However, I did receive this following email from the Director of PR from the Warriors.

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Jonathan,

I wanted to personally reach out and thank you for submitting an application to attend the first-ever Warriors Tweedia Day.

While I was unfamiliar with your website prior to seeing your application, I was very impressed and you were certainly one of the people that we considered inviting. Unfortunately, due to space limitations, we were not able to include everyone that we wanted.

We hope to offer more opportunities for non-traditional outlets such as yours to cover Warriors basketball in the future, and would like for you to be included in some of those opportunities when appropriate.

Please keep in touch.

Thanks again,
Dan

PS…You will probably receive an automated email via our website that will be sent to everyone who applied, but I wanted to personally reach out to you because your application stood out to us.

Dan Martinez
PR Director
Golden State Warriors

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If there was ever such thing as finding the silver lining in a rejection, this would be it. If you do a quick background check of the 10 people selected, you would see that all of them are pretty well established bloggers who have been blogging for a long time, and many Warriors fans might already be familiar with two of the blogs: warriorsworld and goldenstateofmind.

i started this blog due to the encouragement of a lot of my close friends, and its been absolutely amazing to hear a lot of positive feedback from a lot of people, even people that I never knew read my blog. affirmation is definitely important to me, and i guess Dan (and Jon Chang and everyone else of course) has “inspired” me to keep working and improving my writing so that when another opportunity like this comes along, people cant say no.