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Page Lizard ventured to pastures new again last week. We brought our snazzy notebooks, dazzling business cards and stretchy lizards to the people of The Managing Member Networks Conference in London. As usual we were in attendance just to lend a helping hand to those who are thinking about going digital with their membership publications.

If you Google "digital publishing" right now, you will undoubtedly find hundreds, if not thousands of blogs detailing how print is dead, and how digital publishing has been the main catalyst of its downfall. Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and look at things from a different perspective.

Before every Tom Dick and Harry had tablets and smartphones, books, newspapers, magazines and journals were printed because that was the only option available. Not that anyone minded or even noticed; publishing has always been tied to paper in that way. Now with the digital publishing world in a state of constant flux, publishers have a choice between digital or print. This means that whenever a hard copy book is made, it is now done with a greater consideration of the end product - someone has had a choice, not just defaulted to print.

Each year Memcom hosts a conference that welcomes around 200 delegates from membership organisations across the UK. This is then followed by a sit down lunch and awards ceremony.

Despite Page Lizard not being a membership organisation ourselves, we still like to lend a helping claw to those who need it. Our aim at Memcom 2014 was to reach out to membership organisations who are delving into their bright digital publishing future head first but aren't actually sure how to engage, grow and retain their audiences.

Page Lizard creates digital publishing for ArtBanc.

If you don't know your Pissarro's from your Picasso's, you'd be forgiven for having not heard of ArtBanc. A company that provide art sales and collections management services for the professional art community. They have some real art bigwigs on board, with a formidable collective number of years experience in dealing with pieces and collections.

Be it print or digital publishing, you're still only as good as your last story...

When I was a daily newspaper reporter, nothing was truer than the cliché ‘you are only as good as your last story’. In the newsroom of The Daily Mail, every reporter’s stock rose and fell on a daily basis depending on whom they had scooped, or been scooped by