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Vanderwal at Personal InfoCloud just posted Enterprise Social Tools: Components for Success. In a nutshell, he discusses the “four rings of enterprise social tools” and how they must work in conjunction in order to achieve success. His four rings are:

• Tools
• Interface & Ease of use
• Sociality
• Encouraging Use

He portrays the four rings as a Venn diagram, focusing on the intersecting sections of the four rings. Please read his original post, I am not going to repeat it here.

But I do want to point out that this is another example of someone who understands that Enterprise 2.0 and the connected enterprise is about much more than a mere set of tools and technology. It is about how people interact with each other and behave while they happen to be using the tools.

Maybe Hugh says it best: