All that great networking doesn't have to end just because conference is over!
Check out the ACS CheeseWire social networking site - your new online home.
You can network with ACS members and other cheese enthusiasts. Post your questions, share your photos from conference and catch up with all the contacts you made in Austin.
It's year-round networking and it's free (not to mention fun!) To sign-up and create your profile, just visit http://cheesewire.cheesociety.org.
Conference Handouts
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Whether you wish you took better notes or couldn't attend a session because there were just too many good ones to choose from, we're here to help:
Did you recently win an award? Complete a certification? Is your company holding a special event or celebrating a milestone? Share it!
To make it even easier for you to include your news in the ACS newsletter, we've created an online submission form. Just click the link, fill out the form and watch for your member news in the next issue.
Welcome to the August issue of the CheeseWire Monthly Newsletter!
As always, if you have something to add, please don't hesitate to contact acs@hqtrs.com - we're always happy to hear from you!
ACS Judging and Competition
The 25th Annual Judging and Competition was a record-breaking year. Nearly 200 producers from 32 states, Canada and Mexico entered a total of 1,327 cheeses and cultured dairy products - 119 more than the previous record from 2007.
Rogue Creamery from Central Point, Oregon took home Best in Show for its Rogue River Blue, pictured at right. Second place went to Cowgirl Creamery's Redhawk.
Third place was a tie between Carr Valley Cheese's
Cave Aged Mellage and Consider Bardwell Farm's Rupert.
Plans are already well underway for the 2010 ACS Conference.
Mark your calendar and plan to attend the 27th Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington, August 25-28, 2010.
Need more convincing? Click here to watch a video with 2010 Conference Co-chairs Kurt Dammeier of Beecher's Handmade Cheese and Sasha Davies of Cheese by Hand.
Could Seattle be the cheese capital of the world? Plan to attend the conference and find out for yourself.
Crisis Management Tool Kit Available ACS Marketing & PR Committee Co-Chairs Greg O'Neill and Jill Giacomini Basch have created an American Cheese Society (ACS) Crisis Management Tool Kit. The plan includes the basic components for handling a crisis which threatens your cheese business.
While designed primarily for producers, many aspects of this kit are pertinent and at a minimum, educational for the entire supply chain. ACS has developed this kit in conjunction with its industry partners in order to continue to provide its membership with truly helpful year-round membership benefits.
The goal of the tool kit is to give you the foundation for identifying and managing a crisis from a public relations perspective - so you don't feel as if you are starting from "square one".
The 25th Annual Judging and Competition was a record-breaking year. Nearly 200 producers from 32 states, Canada and Mexico entered a total of 1,327 cheeses and cultured dairy products - 119 more than the previous record from 2007. 
Plans are already well underway for the 2010 ACS Conference.