Take a reprieve from the holiday hustle and bustle! Join us on Thursday, December 20 at Capsule Café for some relaxed networking with spiked egg nog, hot chocolate and light appetizers. It's our way of saying thank you for a wonderful year of Think + Link. Also! We will be collecting non-perishable food items to donate to Second Harvest at our Holiday Happy Hour. Plan ahead to help us give back! We look forward to having you join us. Contact Kitty Hart at 612.341.4525 or email khart@capsule.us for an invitation.  ...
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There is still time to register for Capsule friend Joe Pine's Experience Economy workshop on December 6 at CoCo MSP! Drawing from both The Experience Economy and his latest book, Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier, Joe Pine will show you how digital experiences, properly staged, can be every bit as engaging as physical ones. But that is mere preamble to the central focus of this How-To session: designing experiences that fuse the real and the virtual. Today, as more and more people bring their tec...
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Capsule is excited to announce November's Think + Link for a living session with professional futurist Cecily Sommers, founder and president of The Push Institute. Join us on Thursday, November 15 at 7:30 a.m. at Capsule Café for a continental breakfast among connections new and old, and the opportunity to hear Cecily address the Think + Link crowd. About Cecily Sommers Identifying patterns and future potentials is Cecily's specialty; strategizing proprietary opportunities is her passion; and connecting it all to real-time, right-...
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"Massholes." The term was shared with us when we started working with Schwinn many years back. It's used to describe a brand when they move into mass retailers and, while we were amused by it at first, we ultimately found the message it sends a bit sad. Upon further thought, we've decided we have an issue with the connotation. Let's use a thought exercise to consider this idea of "massholes." Headline: Target now carries a line of Trek bicycles, the same brand coveted by Lance Armstrong Background: (1) Minneapolis/St. Paul (hom...
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Think + Link for a Living is well into its second year, so we thought it was high time Aaron Keller join our speaker line-up and take the Capsule stage to address our morning crowd.  Join us on Thursday, October 25 at 7:30 a.m. at Capsule Café for a continental breakfast among connections new and old, and the opportunity to finally see Aaron on stage to discuss the relationship between business and design in his presentation titled "Toothpicks and Plungers." About Aaron Keller Aaron Keller is a founding partner and the Managing ...
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