The Executive Committee of the Southern African Online User Group (SAOUG) invites you to our next meeting
Date: Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Venue: Centurion Theatre
Time: 10:30 -15:00
Programme:
10:30-11:00 Registration
11:00-12:00 Follow a Librarian: Social networking and the library – Prof Louis Fourie
12:00-15:00 Lunch
Cost: R100 for paid-up members, R300 for non-members
About the talk:
Louis Fourie is presently professor in the Department of Information Systems at the University of the Western Cape. He is also visiting professor at various other universities, including the Universities of Stellenbosch, North-West, Johannesburg, TUT, West Florida (Pensacola, USA) and Ndejje (Uganda).
His highest academic qualification is a D.Th from the University of Stellenbosch in 1991. Before this he completed a BA (1977), a B.Th (1980), an L.Th cum laude (1981), M.Th cum laude (1982) at the University of Stellenbosch. In 1999 he completed an MBA degree at the Potchefstroom University where he received the Old Mutual Gold Medal for exceptional achievement and the best MBA student. He also received recommendations for the best dissertation in information technology, as well as for strategic management.
Louis is involved in various research projects, supervised numerous MBA, Masters and PhD theses. In 2004 he received the USB Sanlam award for research. His consultation work spans various industries and disciplines. He frequently presents papers at national and international conferences, features weekly on national radio regarding the Internet, contributes regularly to several magazines, has published several papers in academic journals, contributed to academic books, and has made many videos on business informatics and the influence of information technology on business.
Please RSVP by Tuesday, 14 August 2012 to Petro on:
E-mail: petrob@saonlineinfo.co.za; Cell: 083 393 6428
Cancellation fee: Please take note: In case of “no-show” or cancellation of less than 7 days before the meeting; you will have to pay the full non-member price
