I can’t find the message or The curse of the smartphone.

Last week a networker contacted me and requested my help with an IT problem.  Today, I was supposed to visit their office and I wanted to verify and get a time.  All my communications are done through my smartphone or in person and I was sure our conversation was done via a text message.  I started searching through my texts on my smartphone for our message stream. It was never found and I looked through my phone app in case it was a phone call instead. Nothing was found with their name and something else had to be done.  A search was done in my google calendar for anything mentioning the contact information and another dead end.

Somewhere in this chaos I took another approach and LinkedIn was opened.  The networker’s profile was searched for a cell phone number and of course nothing was listed.  I found their business card and no cell number was listed!  I called the office number and they were gone so a message was left.  Later, they called back and we set a time. 

I knew somewhere there were pictures and information on my phone and I was going to find it.  An idea hit me to check LinkedIn again and this time I opened messaging and it was here!  Not text messaging!