I think it's safe to say that most librarians use at least one social networking service, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Google+. But logging into those systems just to do a status update can be time consuming, especially if you're on the go and have only your phone with you and no convenient keyboard.
But if you're an iPhone 4S user, you can use the built-in Siri personal assistant to update any of those social networks. First, you go into each service and follow the directions to allow sending SMS message (texts) from your phone to the service. Then, you go into your phone and update your contacts so that you have contacts named "Facebook" or "Twitter" or "LinkedIn" or "Google", with the phone number being whatever number is used by the social service for incoming text messages.
After that, all you need to do is tell Siri to "Text Facebook" (for example) following by your status update.
Hmmm, I'm already getting some ideas on how to use this to promote library events as they are happening!
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