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# Think Web
- URL: https://www.philsimon.com/think-web/
- Published: 2013-04-13T13:35:53.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-26T22:59:15.000Z
- Description: On old mind-sets, new technologies, and the wrong questions to ask.
- Author: Phil Simon
- Tags: Collaboration, Faves, Management, Email

I was talking the other day to a friend of mine who recently started his own company. Joe asked me the following fairly innocuous question:

How do I e-mail a PowerPoint presentation while protecting it?

My friend merely wanted to protect his intellectual property. Fair enough, although I told him that just about every means of locking down a document could be circumvented one way or another. But why the focus on email?

> Stop thinking about old tools like e-mail.

Instead, why not put it on your site via [Scribd](https://www.scribd.com/?ref=philsimon.com), set desired permissions, and draw people to your new (and content-challenged) site? They may actually stay there and share that presentation—and others—with people in their tribes. You may get discovered by others. Who knows what will happen? Not me.

## Simon Says

To the web-challenged, here's some unsolicited advice: Stop thinking about old tools like e-mail. Start thinking web. It's not going anywhere.