Tech-Neill-ogy #98 - 29 June 2025

Your Weekly Guide to Leveraging Technology in College Counseling

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Jeffrey Neill
July 01, 2025

Welcome to Tech-Neill-ogy #98!

It was a wonderful week in New York City at New York University for the annual College Board Summer Institute for International Counselors. I had a couple of great sessions on Artificial Intelligence in the college counseling domain. More to share there eventually. Now I’m on holiday with my family in New England, enjoying the summer months.

This week, if you can take a few minutes to do anything, I suggest you take some time to look at http://www.dreamcollege.ai! This is an incredible, developing platform intended to augment the work of a college counselor. From a student profile, it does a host of things, from suggesting a “position statement” (which I have previously called an “elevator pitch”) to suggesting colleges to recommending majors, extracurricular activities, summer programs, and scholarships to providing essay feedback. It is truly a one-stop tool for many common obstacles for college counselors… and it is still evolving and adding features! Click on the banner below to give it a whirl!

For now, though, enjoy the newsletter!

The A.I. Race Is Splitting the World Into Haves and Have-Nots

As countries race to power artificial intelligence, a yawning gap is opening around the world.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/technology/ai-computing-global-divide.html

These Students Use AI a Lot — but Not to Cheat

For some students, the technology can effectively replace collaborative learning with classmates and office hours with professors.

www.chronicle.com/special-projects/the-different-voices-of-student-success/ai-to-the-rescue

5 AI Regulation Lies Everyone Must Stop Believing

Understanding the 5 common misconceptions about AI rules could save your company from costly legal violations as artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everything.

www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/06/27/5-ai-regulation-lies-everyone-must-stop-believing

20 Game-Changing AI Tools Every Small Business Leader Needs Now

Small Businesses represent 90% of global industry and generate nearly half of worldwide GDP, yet many entrepreneurs are missing out on AI tools that.

www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2025/06/23/20-game-changing-ai-tools-every-small-business-leader-needs-now

Mind Luster 300,000 Online Courses and MOOCs With Free Certificates in one place

Discover Free Online Certified Courses - Programming - Graphic - Accounting - Languages - English - Computer - Technology designed by experts and universities

www.mindluster.com

Kimi-Researcher: End-to-End RL Training for Emerging Agentic Capabilities

Meet Kimi-Researcher, an autonomous agent that excels at multi-turn search and reasoning. It performs an average of 23 reasoning steps and explores over 200 URLs per task.

moonshotai.github.io/Kimi-Researcher

Klero — AI Assistants & Docs for Startup Teams

Build with clarity, not guesswork. Klero helps founders, PMs, UX designers, and engineers align on goals, move faster, and ship what matters.

www.klero.ai

Ittybit – scalable media APIs and automations

Use ittybit's media APIs to store, transform, and get intelligence from your video, audio, and image files. Start with a few lines of code and scale to millions of uploads when you're ready.

ittybit.com

Macaly – Build Apps by Just Describing Them | Vibe Coding Tool

Macaly lets anyone create working apps and websites simply by describing ideas naturally through voice or text. No coding required. Perfect for rapid prototyping, internal tools, and responsive, SEO-friendly websites.

www.macaly.com

Free Online AI Photo Editor, Image Generator & Design tool

Get creative with Pixlr’s online photo editing & design tools. Including AI image generator, batch editor, animation design, enhancer & more. Try now for FREE!

pixlr.com

https://edficacy.co/ - Tell them Jeff sent you!

Building upon my post from last week, I wanted to share another insight about timed ChatGPT posts. Some reported that it would not work for them; I think that this is because you are not using the correct ChatGPT model. Try ChatGPT 4o. It works for me! 

You're my AI assistant. Every day at 8:00 AM, I need you to generate: my calendar summary, key reminders, 3 priority tasks, 2 learning insights in high school college counseling, and 1 motivational quote. Make it actionable, focused, and high ROI.

And apologies, but I found this quote somewhere on Instagram, so I had to manually copy it. I feel badly because I cannot cite my source approrpriately!

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

Webinars & Live Events Page

Look here for upcoming webinars and other events (and recorded ones) by the College Essay Guy! New events are happening all the time…

www.collegeessayguy.com/webinars-live-events

In closing, I really enjoyed this article on the integration of hospitality into university recruitment. Take a look:

How Hospitality Can Be Your College’s Secret Weapon

Prospective students aren’t just looking for academic fit or financial aid — they’re looking for human connection. They’re looking for home.

www.chronicle.com/article/how-hospitality-can-be-your-colleges-secret-weapon

Enjoy your week! Happy counseling!

Jeff