It's time to crown another Ning Superstar! If you're not familiar with our Ning Superstars, it's just a simple way we can spotlight some of the wonderful Network Creators who share great tips, tricks, and advice here on Creators. We do this every once in a while, and each person chosen as a Ning Superstar gets a complimentary three-month Ning Pro subscription for their network — or any other network of their choice.
Today, we'd like to raise the roof for Bernard Lama. He runs the Kanchenjunga Social Network based in India that has over 10,000 members. (Impressive!) It's a general social network that's free for everyone and — like a lot of Ning Networks — is all about finding and making friends and just sharing day-to-day stuff. No crazy hook or weird niche or wacky idea. Just a good old social network.
One thing that stands out to us about his network that we love is that he accepts donations, and he has a wonderful pitch that we think is a great way to encourage people to donate:
Because KSN is free to members and visitors, donations are our only real means of income. We (KSN TEAM ) would be very grateful to accept any donations that members or visitors may wish to give to us to keep everything running smoothly. Whatever balance that remains at the end of the year, we use it to help someone who needs it in our community.
What a great idea. Put any leftover balance toward helping someone who needs it. Bravo, Bernard. Well said.
Like that winning idea, Bernard has tons of other little tweaks and changes that he shares in the Creators community, and we wanted to take this opportunity to say thank you for being so helpful.
Bernard also does some work on the side for clients, so if you're ever looking for someone to hire, you might just find him in the Hello! You may want to also try posting in the Hire a Creator group. Please feel free to paste in something glittery or animated or GIF-driven or just plain fun as a way to say, "Thanks, Bernard!"
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Permalink Reply by Fruitfairy on February 18, 2012 at 6:07pm Awesome! Good work Bernard!
I hope my network www.30bananasaday.com gets a mention too sometime! ;-) We are nearly at 10,000 (would be more like 15,000 if we weren't so fussy about who we let in), entry is free and we rank really high on google search etc. Can't believe how busy we have got, sometimes 120 or more on chat at a time
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Permalink Reply by Nor Cal Social Media on February 19, 2012 at 2:12am
Permalink Reply by Lisa Lanpher on February 20, 2012 at 5:11am Thank you for your good advice, Bernard!
Permalink Reply by Carina on February 20, 2012 at 11:36am He is great! I have not seen such a nice person before.. Keep it up Bern.

Thanks man..it's a pleasure helping you..

All I have to say is, thank you all for the congrats. Good wishes to you all.
Permalink Reply by shrawan bomjan on February 24, 2012 at 4:21am Thumbs Up!!;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Bomzon

Congratulations, Bernard! (And I LOVE THIS IDEA: "Whatever balance that remains at the end of the year, we use it to help someone who needs it in our community."
Keep STRONG!
+Vincent
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