Each year before the holidays, we host a fun Secret Santa present exchange between editors. Editors sign up, agreeing to buy/make a gift for someone chosen at random by the gift exchange organizer.

Just why is it critical for BellaOnline editors to have an editor photo posted with their site? The answer has to do with our goal of building your skills and reputation as a world class journalist - and how your visitors perceive your humanity.

When you´re doing a phone interview you have to be able to think on your feet, react to what they say and get a sense of what they want to talk about. Your aim is to draw informative, unique quotes and descriptions from them.

Mused is the BellaOnline Literary Review magazine. It is published online in HTML and PDF format, and comes out quarterly on each equinox and solstice. We have received great praise for our high quality issues!

Twitter is an awesome social networking tool for many reasons. It´s incredibly easy to set up. It´s very easy to use. It takes almost no time commitment. It can bring you a ton of traffic!

When you take on a site at BellaOnline, it will have content in it from the previous editor or editors. Each week this content should be replaced with your own fresh ideas and point of view.

While MySpace began as a place for bands, and FaceBook began as a place for college students, LinkedIn is explicitly a site to help recommend valuable business contacts. If you have a plumber you really enjoy, you post that information on LinkedIn. That way when your friends and family want to find

Once apon a time, FaceBook was only a site for students at colleges. Then high school students all began to yell, and FaceBook opened up to allow in high school students too.

Back in the old days, MySpace was primarily a network for bands to talk with each other and share their music. Over time it began to expand so that non-bands began joining in - i.e. the fans.

A key way to get free publicity for all of your writing efforts - on BellaOnline and elsewhere - is to post Amazon reviews. Here are step by step instructions on how to do this well.