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On Tuesday July 5th, we threw a summer party on the rooftop terrace of Taylor Wessing. But we weren't just there for the gorgeous skyline views of London.

The evening brought together professionals from the publishing and membership sectors to explore the subject 'Building communities: What publishers and membership organisations can learn from each other'.

I attended the MT Live conference  'Future of Work' conference last week and was blown away by the quality of the content. The speakers (including a Skype to Cannes with Martin Sorrell) were brilliantly chosen and the whole event had a coherence and relevance that kept the audience engaged.

“We wont necessarily be publishers in future," Diane Young, MD of The Drum, told Page Lizard's  '2025: Visions for the Future of Publishing' debate in February. "But we will be serving the needs of communities we have built."

The idea of the media brand existing as the focal point around which communities of readers coalesce is not new. The idea of the media brand reducing its print revenues to a mere 9% of income and growing the rest from the service it provides to the community, is a signpost of the future.

It might feel like summer's been and gone already, but there's plenty going on in the publishing world. Here, we've rounded up the top events in digital publishing to keep you busy until the weather brightens...

Last week's Digital Media Strategies conference was, for the most part, a brilliant insight into the successes, failures and lessons that organisations have faced over the past year.