Chandler’s Ford & Hiltingbury PACT Meeting will take place at Merdon School on Thursday 18th December 2014 at 7pm.
Guy Smales of Eastleigh Neighbourhood Watch Association said: “The Police team covering our area is holding a PACT (Police and Community Together) meeting in Merdon School.”
“These meetings are to bring members of our community together to help make them aware of the services available to them, to discuss their concerns and to prioritise any issues arising.”
“Please make every effort to attend.”
What is PACT?
PACT stands for Police and Community Together.
This is a new initiative being run throughout Eastleigh.
Venue: Merdon Junior School
Merdon Avenue
Chandler’s Ford SO53 1EJ
(hat tip: Ray Fishman)
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Could someone help explain this to me?
I received a document about this PACT meeting. The original text is:
(Headline) “Chandlers Ford & Hiltingbury #PACT Meeting – Merdon School on Thursday 18th December 2014 at 7pm”.
(Main text) “We would like to invite residents of Chandlers Ford and Hiltingbury to the new #PACT Meeting.”
Could you explain the purpose of a hashtag # in the title and sentence above? Is it now common to add a hashtag in keywords in your correspondence? In business, or in your normal writing, do you do that?
I understand that # is commonly used in Twitter, but I have never used it in a formal (or informal) letter as a part of speech.
How much do you know about #? Would #PACT Meeting makes you feel the event is more important than a non hashtag PACT meeting?
Feedback welcome. Thanks.
As far as I know, the hashtag only serves a purpose on Twitter where it acts as a heading for a group of comments, so people can search on them and add their own comments.
Using a hashtag on anything but Twitter has absolutely no benefit or use as far as I know, except maybe as a means of drawing attention!
Hope that helps.
Thank you Richard. My view is the same as yours – I know of the purpose of using # in a tweet, but when I saw this letter this afternoon, I was a bit baffled – perhaps it is now trendy to add a hashtag in words.
There is a coffee chain called Coffee#1 and there is one in Eastleigh. I would pronounce this shop name as ‘Coffee hashtag 1’, but my teenage son said my pronunciation was incorrect. He said the coffee shop should be pronounced ‘Coffee Number 1’.
In the US it is used as shorthand for “number” (where we would use “no.”). If you’ve ever wondered why the Americans call it a pound sign when we know a pound sign is £, it’s a symbol for a pound weight, not a pound sterling. I forget the origin, but it goes back a long way.
And “no.” short for number is actually an abbreviation for “numero” which is French for number.
And the name hash is a corruption of “hatch” – as in cross-hatch. It differs from the musical sharp symbol, as the two cross lines are horizontal in a hash but rise slightly in a sharp (otherwise they would be hidden by the lines on the music staff).
A hashtag is a label for a group or a heading. Twitter makes it popular.
It is pointless to use a hashtag in text, unless it is a link.
Yes was explained to me as per the above…suggest the coffee shop are trying to look modern but have missed the point.
I didn’t know this existed, have you thought of a leaflet drop or newsletter?
Not a lot of point if only 11 people turn up.
Dear Mark,
I only heard of this PACT meeting via an email from Ray Fishman.
It seems that this letter was circulating in the Neighbourhood Watch group, or through emails, or words of mouth. I didn’t see it published in other public place either. I didn’t receive any newsletter or leaflet about this meeting.
It was a shame that only 11 people attended. However there will be more events in the future, and I hope the publicity will be improved.
I think that Chandler’s Ford Parish Council had a duty to publicise this event on its website. Unfortunately I didn’t find the information there.
I did my best in advertising the event here on Chandler’s Ford Today. It is an independent website run by me, and it is supported by many local residents, who contribute to its content.