Last December I signed up for the STM Association’s Innovations Seminar Flash Talk. It is one of the toughest presentation challenges out there: 20 slides with an auto advance feature showing each slide for 15 seconds. Designed to break up the usual 45 minute format of a conference, flash talks have the added benefit of terrifying perfectly capable public speakers and giving the audience something to cheer for as we, the speakers, try to stay on track, get our message across, and beat

MarkLogic’s customer base includes a large number of Not-For-Profit and membership-based organisations – Societies, Institutions and others. These companies are STM (Scientific, Technical & Medical) publishers but not commercial STM publishing organisations. They therefore share some similar challenges when it comes to information sharing and content publishing but they have a different set of priorities and goals.

I wanted to find out more about this important section of the marketplace