Facebook status updates and Twitter's real-time microblogging has conditioned us to want immediate updates about the world around us (from events, to product releases, to breaking news) NOW!

That beautiful piece of compact technology known as the iPhone is making blogging-on-the-go easier, quicker and more efficient than ever before.  That means we no longer need to be tethered to a clunky laptop in order to blog in real time.

Join Charlie Oliver (@itscomplicated) and Marshall Sponder (@webmetricsguru) on August 25^th (6:30pm-8:30pm) for an evening of iPhone learnin’ and lovin’ as blogging guru Marshall Sponder walks us through the good, the bad, and the ugly of blogging-on-the-go from your iPhone (pizza afterwards included). 

The topics Marshall will discuss include:

1.   Supported Phones (short list)

• iPhone / iPod Touch
• Android
• Blackberry

2.   Apps

• Wordpress ( for IPhones and Black berry)
• Movable Type
• TypePad
• third party apps (ie: Blogpress 4 iPhone/iPod Touch)

3.      Blogging vs. Twitter vs. SMS

4.      Advantages of moblie blogging

5.      Disadvantages of mobile blogging

6.      Hybrid blogging platforms such as Posterous

7.      Lifestreaming vs. Blogging

8.      Live blogging at events/conferences (how to be discreet, logistics, capturing the moment)

9.      Streaming to social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) while mobile blogging

8.      Legal, what you need to know.

9.      Other things you can do with mobile

10.    Video blogging on mobile phones

11.    Summary

12.    The Future, and where it's all going.

Marshall Sponder is the founder of Webmetricsguru.com, an industry blog about Web Analytics, Social Media and Search Marketing. He  writes a monthly column for Entrepreneur.com on leveraging online marketing technologies that help businesses succeed in a challenging economy.  Marshall maintains his own Analytics Consultancy, Now.Seo, and is an Emeritus Director of Social Media  the Web Analytics Association.

Charlie Oliver is the organizer of The New York Blog Academy Meetup (@blogacademy) (a Meetup dedicated to refining and strengthening the voice of up-and-coming bloggers) and the "Dictator-of-Talk" and Founder of ArtofTalk.tv (a recently launched new media site that aggregates talk show content and couples it with analytical (and often biting) commentary on the news, fiery debates, hilarious moments and scandals happening on radio and television talk shows daily).