Phelps Gets Swimsuits in a Twist By Jason Gay We did it! We set a new world record for writing this column. No, it wasn't the Red Bull, or the delicious iced Americano we gulped down at 3 p.m. It was the suit. The slinky, full-body, polyurethane swimsuit we wore all afternoon while typing -- shaving more than two hours off our personal best. What the heck is going on with swimming? It used to be a simple sport: go to the pool, dive in the pool, climb back on dry land. Now our aquatic heroes are donning Bruce Wayne's underwear and the arguments over performance enhancement have become more animated than those in Bud Selig's Town Car. The poly suits, which swimmers say give them additional buoyancy, are ravaging the sport's record book. At this week's world championships in Rome, world-record times were collapsing in, uh, world-record time. A couple people even got busted for wearing a polyurethane suit under a polyurethane suit. We know a nightclub where that's acceptable, but not a pool. For the whole story click on the link below: http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=534 Twitter Seen as an Important Career Skill Who could have predicted that 140 characters in a message could one day be so important? Twitter, the micro-social networking site, has emerged as a marketable skill for job seekers to place on their resume because some companies are starting to see the value of social media. Bob Van Rossum, president of recruitment company MarketPro, told the Atlantic Journal-Constitution that certain industries see those with social media skills as excellent candidates for open job positions. For the whole story click on the link below: http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=532 How to Protect Your Online Reputation By Amanda Berlin, Forbes.com The good, the bad, the ugly ... anything that's posted about you on the Web will likely come up in an online search or with a little digging. And that can mean trouble. Erik Kopelman, a business development professional for a New York City Internet company, was haunted by an accusation that appeared on the Web in 1997, when he was on the board of the student association at the State University of New York at Binghamton. "It was an accusation printed in the student paper about the misuse of funds," he says. "I knew I could explain it away if it ever came up, and nothing ever came of it, but for the first two years I was job-hunting, I was worried." For the whole story click on the link below: http://www.thecorporateplaybook.com/huddle/index.php?tid=535

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