Tech-Neill-ogy #136 - 26 July 2026

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Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #136!

This is that awful June/July that happens every so often in schools where the previous school year ended late and the upcoming school year begins early… I spent a week visiting Saint George’s University in Grenada and then a week in Pittsburgh for the International ACAC Annual Conference, leaving me just two weeks of official break. As such, I hope you can understand why I put the newsletter on the back burner. That said, I’m excited about a number of upcoming adjustments to the newsletter, thanks to the feedback from many of you. Be on the lookout in future editions. For now, please enjoy the newsletter… and please enjoy your holiday should you be so fortunate to still be on break! (And remember that this newsletter is free! So please click on all of the links, especially the sponsors, to help me out. And, to be clear, other than the designated “advertisement” bits, I receive no compensation from the links I share.)

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A different approach this newsletter… I’m now officially obsessed with Serif (formerly EmailTriager). It has added an app that allows you to chat via AI to your inbox. I’m still trying to get my mind around the possibilities, but here are a couple use cases:

• [After uploading a list of my Class of 2027 counselees as a document in my “knowledge base”] Tell me which of my students in the class of 2027 have not shared with me their Brag Sheet.

• Write a reply to X. Tell them that while we appreciate the outreach, we are not interested in their product at this time.

• Write an invitation to the Class of 2027 and parents about our upcoming senior-specific programming in quarter 1.

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Please, if you have any great prompts or ideas, please share! Send me a note at [email protected].

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That’s it for this week, but here’s this week’s non-tech (ish) article:

Apologies for the firewall (subscription) article, but this is an important one. (I imagine that you should be able to get access through your school’s library). In any case, this line stood out to me:

Happy counseling!

Jeff