Routing and accessing content provided by an authoring application

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing software that shares modifications of a document among a plurality of authors, the software comprising:

• executable code that publishes the document using a service that is accessible by at least some of the authors;
• executable code that presents the document and a set of reply tokens to a first author, wherein the set of reply tokens includes two or more tokens from a group consisting of:
• one or more action icon tokens;
• one or more status icon tokens;
• one or more emoticon tokens;
• one or more emoji tokens;
• one or more expressive element tokens;
• one or more clip art tokens;
• one or more abbreviated standard text tokens;
• one or more audio clip tokens;
• one or more video clip tokens;
• and
• one or more shape tokens;
• executable code that receives modifications from the first author, the modifications including selection of at least one reply token of the set of reply tokens, the at least one reply token corresponding to at least one predefined content snippet;
• and
• executable code that propagates the modifications to other authors of the plurality of authors by sending change information to the other authors, wherein the change information includes the at least one predefined content snippet, a pointer to the document, an indication of the modifications, and an identification of the first one of the authors and wherein the change information does not include the document.