It is not easy, keeping all those social media outposts populated with fresh content. Well, the job just got a little easier with CIThread, which offers Content Curation on Steroids, as Paul Gillin called it.
CIThread makes it easy to trick out your various social media outposts – Twitter, your blog(s), Facebook, etc. – with related content from around the Web. It is an excellent way to build thought leadership or news digest types of sites, and keep your social media forums fresh with related content.
I took a look at CIThread this week and posted a review on Social Fluency. Please see below for an excerpt, and visit the link to read the full review.
In concept CIThread is rather simple and straightforward, yet for someone who knows how challenging what they are doing is, it is actually extremely impressive. My eyes got wider as {I saw how] you set up CIThread to monitor topics from various Web repositories, train the system to understand which topics you like, and assign discovered content into various buckets – either for exclusion, publishing, etc.
The system apparently gets smarter over time about what types of content are appropriate and interesting for your social media outposts.
For every need I could conceive and question I had, Tom and Mike had ready responses:
- Formatting of content for easy promotion to Facebook, Twitter and popular blogging platforms? Got that.
- Easy management of search terms and topic threads? Yup!
- Works with a range of indexes and content repositories? Uh huh
- Metrics that show which content was popular and thus help with future selections? Yes it can!
- Helps populate individual blog posts, and also enables publishing in news digest format? Check!
Moreover, all this comes at a very reasonable price – the service is hosted, and users pay a monthly fee based on the number of topic threads.
