[Sigia-l] alternate aplication of card-sorting

[Markus Mayer]

Hi folks,
I was asked by a project manager in my company for help in specifying 
category/topic/link wording on a public website (topic: financial 
services). Since they are on a tight schedule I was thinking about 
conducting card-sorting via e-mail. Do you have any tips/experiences on 
differences between conducting a card sorting with real cards and 
conducting via e-mail? 
How suitable is card-sorting in your opinion for coming up with the actual 
navigation wording (as opposed to the navigation structure). When you are 
not sure about how to label things to you actually give users cards with 
different labels for the same thing asking them not only to group items 
but also to choose among different labels for that item (or suggesting a 
new one)?

Thanks in advance for your ideas,

Markus Mayer