Gavin Bell

Gavin Bell

Nature

Gavin designs social software for the Nature Publishing Group. He has worked in web product development since the mid-90s. Large scale web applications covering identity management, on-demand media and social software have been the main focus of his work. Gavin lives in London with his wife and son. He writes on nascent for Nature and on take one onion. His personal website is gavinbell.com.

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11:00am Tuesday, 02/12/2008
From Buyers of Books to a Community of Readers
General, Social Broadway South
Gavin Bell (Nature)
Reaching beyond book sales to your readers means deciding what to build community around. Failure is easy—running good communities requires bold decisions and new skills outside the publishing world. Read more.
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