Financial Aid may only be used for educational purposes and to pay the cost of attending Lehigh Carbon Community College. Now is the time to apply for Financial Aid for the 2018-2019 academic year which covers classes starting in August 2018through August 2019.
In IT, a platform is any hardware or software used to host an application or service. An application platform, for example, consists of hardware, an operating system and coordinating programs that use the instruction set for a particular processor or microprocessor.
This post was originally published in 2012; it has been revised and expanded. Author platform is one of the most difficult concepts to explain, partly because everyone defines it a little differently. But by far the easiest explanation is: an ability to sell books because of who you are or who you can reach. Platform is a concept that first arose in connection with nonfiction authors.