We don’t usually mention the coverage we receive, but yesterday the Technology Guardian gave not only a very flattering mention to welovelocal.com, but also highlighted an important emerging trend – SUNs!

The article’s focus is around the growing popularity and success of ‘social sites with a social conscience’ – sites that do more than just allow people to talk about what they are going to do at the weekend, sites that facilitate people to make an impact on the real world around them. welovelocal.com was mentioned amongst others to be in ‘the middle of a mini- boom in services that use the unique properties of the internet to help people manage and enrich their lives in a way that was not possible before.’ We are pretty pleased with this description - accurate recognition can be hard to come by.

Such descriptions are a breath of fresh air as welovelocal.com has always aimed to nurture online communities that hold a real and relevant place in the physical world.The site sees people from different areas encouraging others to shop locally, or try a particular local service, all through the words they write in reviews. Mixing new ideas and technology with the age old idea of ‘word of mouth’ creates a great local community resource.

This is not our only mention either, recently we have been lucky enough to receive quite a bit of coverage from Guardian Travel, BBC and NMA which we are very grateful for and proud of. This is all well and good but we have to say ‘thank you’ to our great reviewers who really make the site the awesome community it is.

Photo supplied by gigijin over at Flickr.