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It means "State of our Community"

Let's round up a couple reactions from the State of Our Community Luncheon last week.

A hashtag appeared last week on Twitter (yes, it's becoming relevant) for the luncheon hosted by the Greensboro Chamber. It is #SOCL, and several local Twitter users seized upon the hashtag, which makes a search about one topic easy to do on Twitter.

This also means that Twitter is becoming a network of information distribution, not just the unending barrage of text message-like missives that only Gen-Y folks would understand.

While we're on the topic of #SOCL, be sure to check out what editorial had to say, if you want some more about the conversation.

Generally speaking, not a whole lot of news types latch on to a meeting such as a chamber-hosted luncheon. They tend to be pulpits from which politicians can stump freely and on nearly anything without direction and restraint. Yet there seemed to be more subtext to the recent luncheon, perhaps punctuated by the goodwill feelings across the region still lingering from the Wyndham Championship.

But even for we scruffy reporter types at Scoop, there seemed to be some enthusiasm for boosting the county. Then again the meeting was in the doldrums of summer, well after budget season and during a time in which the hype and business of government is traditionally slow.

Nonetheless, this week we're working to see how state dollars are coming to the county.